Inner Planets
Give another word for Inner Planets
What are rocky planets or terrestrial planets
This planets has the most moons out of any other planet.
What is Jupiter?
A star that is dense and made up of hot gases.
What is the Sun
When gravity is not present to allow the planets to orbit around the sun, this happens
What is the planets would drift off into space in a different direction/ they would not orbit
Our solar system is located in this galaxy
What is the Milky Way Galaxy
This planet is the fastest planet to orbit the Sun, with a year of only 88 days long.
What is Mercury
This planet has the largest and most noticeable ring system.
What is Saturn
All the space and matter space contains
What is the universe?
As the mass of interacting objects increases the gravity ___________
What is increases
This divides the inner planets from the outer planets
What is the asteroid belt
This planet is the only one that is able to support life
What is Earth
This is a green gas giant that has 27 moons and orbits the Sun tipped on its side, which is the result of an ancient impact.
What is Uranus
Rocky objects that orbit the Sun and are clustered in bands called belts
What are asteroids?
As the distance between interacting objects increases, (gets further away from each other) the gravity __________.
What is decreases
Pluto is this type of planet
What is a dwarf planet
This planet is covered in a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide, with the hottest temperatures of all the planets in the solar system.
What is Venus?
This planet takes the longest to orbit the Sun which means it has the longest year.
What is Neptune
Any object in space that is not made by humans.
What is a celestial object
The force of gravitational attraction between two objects could be increased by reducing this
What is the distance
Order the inner planets from largest to smallest
What is Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury
This planet contains iron oxide (rust) in its soil. This planet is a cold, lifeless, rocky desert, though water once flowed on its ancient surface.
What is Mars
These planets have a ring system
What is all of the gas giants
A celestial body orbiting the earth or another planet.
What is a satellite?
The orbital motions of the objects in the solar system are the direct result of this force
What is gravity
These celestial objects are smaller than planets and are held in place by the pull of gravity from the planet they orbit. Mercury and Venus do not have these.
What are moons