Solar System 1
Solar System 2
Solar System 3
Solar System 4
Solar System 5
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The closest planet to the sun.
Mercury
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The hottest planet.
Venus
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Name this phase.
First Quarter
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What galaxy do we live in?
Milky Way
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Name one of Jupiter's moons.
Io
Europa
Ganymede
Callisto
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Name the four inner planets.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars.
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The clouds on Venus cause what effect? (Why is Venus so hot?)
Greenhouse effect.
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When the moon is between the Earth & the sun and CANNOT be seen.
New moon.
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What planet has a heart-shaped glacier on it's surface?
Cause y'all #haters.
Pluto
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Name this phase. DAILY DOUBLE
Waning crescent.
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Name the four outer planets (not including Pluto).
Juptier, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
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Called the "Red Planet."
Mars
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A comet is made of these three things.
Gas, dust, & ice
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Name a similarity between an asteroid and a planet.
Daily Double
Minor planets
Orbit the sun
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The Solar System model that is Earth-centered.
Geocentric
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What is another name for the outer planets?
DAILY DOUBLE
Jovian or Gas Giants
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The planet with the Great Red Spot.
Jupiter.
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Name the four parts of a comet.
Coma, nucleus, ion (gas) tail, dust tail.
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Where is Pluto located?
Kuiper Belt
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The Solar System model that is sun-centered.
Heliocentric
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What is another name for the inner planets?
Terrestrial planets
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The planet that has a blue-green color due to the methane in the atmosphere.
Uranus.
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What separates the inner planets from the outer planets?
Daily Double
Asteroid Belt
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Name the difference between a meteorite and a meteor.
DAILY DOUBLE
Meteorite - strikes a planet's surface
Meteor - in the planets atmosphere
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What causes a comet to have tail.
The sun.