Planets
What is the 3rd planet from the sun?
Earth.
What is the largest planet?
Jupiter
Asteroids "hang out" in our solar system in a place called:
asteroid belt
What are comets made of?
gas, ice and dust
What separates the four inner planets from the four outer planets?
Asteroid Belt
Why is Venus the hottest planet?
Greenhouse effect and trapping heat
Which planet has the lowest density?
Saturn
This dwarf planet is found in the asteroid belt
Ceres
What happens to comets when they come close to the sun?
They form tails of gas
Where is the Kuiper belt located?
past the orbit of Neptune
What planet has the fastest revolution?
Mercury
Why are Uranus and Neptune blue?
methane
Where is the main asteroid belt located?
between Mars and Jupiter
What do comets orbit?
the sun
Where do long- term comets come from?
Oort Cloud
Which planet's day is longer than a year?
Venus
Why does Uranus have such extreme seasons that last 21 years?
tilt
This object is known as a shooting star
Meteor
What is the process of ice turning into a gas when comets near the sun?
sublimation
How old is the solar system?
4.6 Billion years
Why is the soil of Mars red?
iron oxide
What are the names of the Galilean moons?
Io, Gaynmede, Europa, Callisto
These are the rarest meteorite
stony-iron meteorite
What direction to comet's tail face?
Why do we only see one side of the moon?
Moon's rotation= moon's revolution