Planet Facts
Oort and Kuiper
Comets
Meteoroids/Meteorites
Planets Order
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What causes high surface temperatures on Venus?
The runaway greenhouse effect of its atmosphere.
100
What is the Oort Cloud made up of?
Trillions of comets
100
What type of orbit do comets have?
An elliptical orbit.
100
What is the word for a meteoroid once it starts burning from Earth's atmosphere?
A meteor.
100
Mercury
200
This planet has a huge storm called the Great Red Spot
Jupiter
200
What is the Kuiper Belt made of?
Left over materials from the formation of the solar system.
200
Where do comets originate from?
The Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt.
200
What do you call a shooting star?
A meteor.
200
Mars.
300
This planet has the largest temperature range from day to night.
Mercury
300
Which region has many minor planet-sized or smaller objects orbiting beyond Neptune?
Kuiper Belt
300
Comets have two tails, which one follows the comets orbit?
The dust tail.
300
If you were out for a walk and a rock fell from the sky, landing at your feet, what sequence describes how the rock changed as it fell?
meteoroid, meteor, meteorite.
300
Neptune.
400
Which planets have at least 60 moons?
Jupiter and Saturn.
400
What is the shape of the Oort Cloud?
It is a sphere.
400
What is the middle, icy and rocky part of a comet called?
The nucleus.
400
What is the difference between a meteoroid and an asteroid?
Their size.
400
Saturn.
500
How do we know that Mars once had liquid water?
Landforms that look like dry riverbeds.
500
Where is the Oort Cloud located?
It surrounds our solar system.
500
The ion tail blows away from the comet due to...
Solar Winds
500
What is a meteorite?
A meteoroid that made it to Earth's surface.
500
Venus and Uranus.