Planets
The number of planets in the solar system
What is 8?
These objects in space orbit a planet.
What are moons?
The two factors that affect the strength of an object's gravitation pull.
What is mass and distance?
This word means "sun".
What is solar?
These kinds of planets are relatively small
What are inner planets?
This is the 3rd planet from the sun. It is the only known planet to support life.
What is Earth?
This object in space sepeartes the inner planets from the outer planets.
What is the asteroid belt?
A small object will have a __________________ pull than a large object.
What is weaker?
This categorization describes a system of planets revolving around a central star.
What is a solar system?
These planets have a large amount of distance between them
What are outer planets?
This is the largest planet in the solar system, sitting as the 5th planet from the sun.
What is Jupiter?
These objects in space are made of frozen rock and gas. They develop tails when approaching the sun.
What are comets?
An object that is close by will have a _____________ gravitational pull than an object that is farther away.
What is stronger?
The name of the galaxy that our solar system is a part of.
What is the Milky Way galaxy?
Their composition is rocky with a metallic core
What are inner planets?
This ice giant is tilted on its side and has a light blue color.
What is Uranus?
The number of dwarf planets within our solar system.
What is 5?
The direction in which we are being pulled by Earth's gravity.
What is down, or to the center of the Earth?
This is the largest categorization given to objects in space. It includes all of space, time, and matter in existence.
What is the universe?
Their composition is ice and gas, which is why they are also called the "gas giants" and "ice giants"
What are the outer planets?
This planet is known as Earth's sister planet, due to its relative size comparison.
What is Venus?
Pluto, and most other dwarf planets, was not able to be considered a planet due to this one criteria.
What is, it could not clear it's orbit of other space objects?
This is the affect of the sun's gravity on all the other planets.
What is the reason why all the planets orbit the sun?
This is a word that could be used to describe the number of stars in the universe.
What is billions upon billions?
These planets rotate at an incredibly fast speed.
What are the outer planets?