Small Celestial Bodies
Planets
Planets in Order from the Sun
Solar System
100
What are giant balls of ice and dust?
Comets
100
Planets are large, spherical celestial bodies that orbit the ______.
Sun
100
What is the 3rd planet from the Sun?
Earth
100
What is the large star located at the center of our solar system?
The Sun
200
What are small, rocky, irregular-shaped objects that orbit the sun?
Asteroids
200
Each planet spins like a top on its _______.
Axis
200
What is the 5th planet from the Sun?
Jupiter
200
What is the name of the Dwarf planet in our solar system?
Pluto
300
What are small fragments of asteroids?
Meteoroids
300
The four outer planets are made up mostly of _______.
Gas
300
What is the 2nd planet from the sun?
Venus
300
True or False: The outer planets have less moons than the inner planets.
False. The correct phrase: The outer planets have *more* moons than the inner planets.
400
What are fiery trails left by meteoroids?
Shooting Stars
400
The four inner planets are made up mostly of ______.
Rock
400
What is the furthest planet from the Sun? (Not Dwarf planet)
Neptune
400
Most planets in our solar system are orbited by ________ or ________.
Satellites or Moons
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