Inner Planets
This is the last of the inner planets.
What is Mars?
This is the planet with the most moons.
What is Saturn?
These are small metallic/rocky objects that are smaller than dwarf planets.
What is an asteroid?
These two things control the amount of gravitational force an object has.
What is mass and distance?
This is the only planet in the solar system confirmed to have life.
What is Earth?
This is a common theme for the size of the inner planets.
What is smaller?
This is a common theme for the size of the outer planets.
What is larger?
These objects have an tail of icy/dusty material.
What is a comet?
If two objects are moved further apart, the gravitational force would _______.
What is decrease?
This is vital for life since it dissolves minerals for cells to function.
What is water?
This is the only planet with more than one moon in the inner solar system.
What is Mars?
These are the two ice giants.
What is Uranus and Neptune?
This is the location of comets and is a disc beyond the orbit of Neptune.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
This planet has the most gravitational force in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This provides a shield from solar radiation (UV rays) and helps trap heat at night.
What is the atmosphere?
This is the hottest of the inner planets due to its thick atmosphere.
What is Venus?
This is the barrier between the inner and outer planets.
What is the Asteroid Belt?
This sphere of dust and ice surrounds the entire solar system up to 100,000 AU away.
What is the Oort Cloud?
These two things are the reason that planets have a curved orbit.
What is gravity and inertia?
This is the location scientists believe planets might have conditions be 'just right' for life or water to exist.
What is the Goldilocks Zone?
Due to their composition the inner planets are known as the _______ planets?
What are the terrestrial?
This is the planet that had a comet (Shoemaker-Levy 9) crash in to it in 1994 because it got caught in its orbit by its very large gravitational field.
What is Jupiter?
This is the unit of measurement for the very long distances of space.
What is an Astronomical Unit (AU)?
It's believed that this is in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and holds even our solar system in its place.
What is a black hole?
These tiny organisms can survive conditions such as no oxygen, no food chain and incredibly cold temperatures.
What are extremophiles?