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Vocabulary
Outer Planets
100
How long does it take the earth to make one full orbit around the sun?
What is 365 days or one year.
100
True or false: The sun is the largest star in our galaxy.
What is true.
100
Name the inner planets.
What is The four smaller inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
100

A large natural object that orbit, or travel around, stars.

What is a Planet?

100
Name the outer planets.
What is What is Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter.
200
How long does it take for Earth to make one full rotation?
What is 24 hours or one day.
200
Does the moon rotate?
What is yes.
200

What is the third planet from the Sun?

What is Earth?

200

An invisible line in which an object rotates.

What is an axis?

200
The outer planets are also known as?
What is Gas Giants.
300
A tool that makes objects in space seem closer and larger is called a ...?
What is telescope.
300
True or false, the sun rotates around the planets.
What is no, the planets rotate around the sun.
300

Name 2 properties of Mars.

Answers will vary.

300

A circular path an object takes as it revolves around another object

What is orbit?
300
Daily Double!!
Free 300 points.
400
What is the imaginary line that the Earth rotates on?
What is Earth's axis.
400

What is a the hottest planet? Why?

What is Venus? Explanations may vary.

400
Daily Double!!!
Free Points.
400

Explain the difference between rotation and revolution.

Rotation - one complete spin on axis

Revolution - one complete orbit around the Sun

400
Name the other planets with rings.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (get at least 3)
500
Name all the planets of our Solar System in order from the sun out.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
500

Which have more moons, inner or outer planets? Which planet has the most moons?

What is Outer Planets. What is Saturn.

500
The inner planets are mainly made up of what?
What is rocks.
500

Name three different ways planets are classified.

Answers may include: terrestrial/gaseous, size, number of moons, rings, rotation, revolution.

500
Why is pluto not considered a planet?
What is no, because it isn't large enough.