Solar System
Inner Planets
Vocabulary
Outer Planets
Asteroids, comets, and other
100
We live in what galaxy
The Milky Way
100
another name for inner planets
rocky or terrestrial
100
the distance light travels in one year
light year
100
another name for the outer planets
gaseous
100
chunk of rock that orbits the sun
asteroid
200
composed of a sun, stars, moons, planets, comets and asteroids
solar system
200
the only known planet to support life
Earth
200
an area in space with gravity so strong light can not escape it
black hole
200
The largest planet
Jupiter
200
system used to rate the hazard level of an object moving towards earth
Torino scale
300
the star that is at the center of our solar system
sun
300
second brightest object in the sky
Venus
300
huge sphere of hot glowing gas ( not sun)
star
300
Blue in color because of the methane gas it is composed of
Neptune
300
celestial body that orbits the sun but not large enough to disturb other objects from its orbit
dwarf planet
400
what separates the inner planets from the outer planets
Asteroid belt
400
smallest planet in solar system
Mercury
400
grouping of millions of stars held together by gravity
galaxy
400
almost featureless, has little weather
Uranus
400
group of stars that form a shape or pattern
constellation
500
name the 8 planets in order
Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune
500
has large dust storms
Mars
500
composed of space and billions of galaxies
universe
500
has many rings
Saturn
500
draw a picture or describe the difference between a meteoroid, meteorite, and meteor
Meteoroid = space Meteorite=strikes earth meteor = shooting star
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