Inner Planets
What are the inner planets made of?
rocks
What are the outer planets made of?
gas
What is the closest planet to the sun?
Mercury
What do we call the medium yellow star at the center of the solar system?
The sun
What is the largest planet?
Jupiter
Which 4 planets are considered inner planets?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
Which 4 planets are considered the outer planets?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
What is the farthest planet from the sun?
Neptune
What is the belt between the inner and the outer planets made of?
Asteroids
What is the smallest planet?
Mercury
True or False: The inner planets only have a few moons or none at all.
True
True or False: Saturn is the only outer planet that has rings.
False
What is the 4th planet from the sun?
Mars
What celestial body is made of ice and dust and travels around the solar system in an elliptical orbit?
A comet
True or False: All of the inner planets are smaller than the outer planets.
True
Which of the inner planets has water and a breathable atmosphere?
Earth
Which outer planet spins on its side?
Uranus
What is the first planet after the asteroid belt?
Jupiter
A meteor is in space. What is it called when it crosses into Earth's atmosphere?
meteorite
Which two planets are the closest in size?
Earth and Venus
Terrestrial
What is another name for the outer planets?
Gas Giants
What is the order of the 8 planets starting with the sun?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
dwarf planets
What is the size order of the planets starting with the largest?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars, and Mercury