Planets
The 3rd planet from the sun
What is the Earth?
Asteroids "hang out" in our solar system in this place
What is the asteroid belt?
Comets are made of these things
What is gas, ice and dust?
This separates the four inner planets from the four outer planets
What is the Asteroid Belt?
Meteoroids are mostly made up of these materials
What are rocks and metals?
The largest planet in the solar system
What is Jupiter?
Ceres
What is the largest asteroid in our solar system?
This happens to comets when they come into the atmosphere
What is "burn up"? (vaporize)
Something special about Venus
What is it has a thick atmosphere?
Meteoroids come from these
What are asteroids?
The smallest planet in the solar system
What is Mercury?
This is where the main asteroid belt located in our solar system
What is between Mars and Jupiter?
These objects that orbit the sun are nicknamed "dirty snowballs."
What are comets?
The reason Mars is called the red planet
What is because of the red soil?
A light streaking across the night sky is classified as a/an....
What is a meteor?
The 6th planet from the sun
What is Saturn?
The main reason that scientists study asteroids
What is to better understand of the origins of the solar system?
The planets that comets pass by in our solar system
What is all?
Asteroids, along with the planets, revolve around the Sun in this direction
What is counter clock-wise?
The difference between a meteor and a meteorite
What is meteors burn up in the earth's atmosphere and meteorites strike the earth
The Greek name for Mercury
What is Hermes?
Asteroids have this in common with Earth
What is they rotate around a central axis?
Comets orbit this
What is the sun?
The Giant Red Spot on planet Jupiter
What is a massive storm?
The objects that burn up in Earth atmosphere causing a streak of light
What is a meteor?