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Sun
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Origins
100

This is the closest planet to the sun.

What is Mercury?

100

This planet has the hottest temperatures.

Venus

100
The sun is the center of this system.
What is the solar system?
100

This is located between the inner planets and the outer planets of our solar system.

What is the ASTEROID BELT?

100

This is the main theory that explains the origins of the universe.

What is the Big Bang Theory?

200
This is the 3rd planet from the sun.
What is earth?
200

These planets are the ICE GIANTS.

What are NEPTUNE and URANUS?

200
The sun is a type of this gas sphere that gives off light and heat.
What is a star?
200

The objects that orbit the sun (which includes things like planets, dwarf planets and asteroids) are called this.

What is a SOLAR SYSTEM?

200

A star gives off these two things

What are LIGHT and HEAT?

300

These are the rocky planets.

What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?

300

This planet rotates on its side.

What is URANUS?

300

It takes the earth 365 days/1 year to do this.

What is revolve (orbit) around the sun?

300

This can have millions or billions of solar systems as well as dust, gas and nebulas.

What is a GALAXY?

300

In the inner solar system, temperatures are so hot while planets are forming that most of THESE are boiled away, leaving behind rocky planets

What are GASES?

400
These are the gas giants.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
400

These are the planets that are smaller than Earth.

What are MERCURY, VENUS, and MARS?

400

This is how long it takes earth to complete one rotation on its axis.

What is 24 hours --or one day?

400

Earth is in this galaxy.

What is the MILKY WAY?

400

In the outer solar system, temperatures are cooler and these form.

What are the gas giants?  (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune)

500

This is what all the planets have in common.

What is they ORBIT/revolve around the sun?

500

The clouds on Venus are made of this.

What are SULFURIC ACID DROPLETS?

500
The sun is responsible for this first step of the water cycle.
What is evaporation?
500

Everything that exists in space and time (which includes all the stars, planets, moons, and galaxies) is called this.

What is the UNIVERSE?

500

A cloud of gas that becomes thick and dense enough to condense into a star and planets is called this.

What is a NEBULA or STELLAR NURSERY?

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