Inner planets
What is another name for the inner planets? How many inner planets are there?
Terrestrial Planets
What is another name for the outer planets? How many planets are there?
Jovain Planets/ Gas Giants
Where is the Asteroid Belt Located?
Between Planets Mars and Jupiter
Between the Inner and Outer Planets
Where is the Kuiper Belt Located?
Beyond Neptune's Orbit
What is the biggest Planet in the Solar System?
Jupiter
What are some characteristics of the inner planets
Rocky, Solid, Dense, 0-2 Moons, Hot, Smaller, Shorter years (quicker orbits around the sun)
What are some characteristics of the outer planets?
Gaseous, Large, Cold, Much longer years (takes much longer to orbit the sun), shorter rotations, Less dense than the inner planets.
What is one of the 4 the largest Asteroid in the asteroid belt?
Ceres, Vestas, Hygiea, Pallas
Name types 2 types of celestial bodies are in the Kuiper Belt.
Dwarf Planets, Comets, Asteroids, Frozen Ice balls
What 2 Gas Giants have "Spots" on them surging with Hurricane Force?
Jupiter, Neptune
Name the 4 Inner Planets
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
Name the 4 Outer Planets
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Where do scientists think the asteroids in the Asteroid Belt come from?
Material that was never able to form into a moon or planet. Or the remains of a planet that broke apart millions of years ago.
What Notable Dwarf Planet is contained in the Kuiper Belt?
Pluto
Which Planets have no Moons?
Mercury and Venus
Does each inner planet have a moon?
No
Which outer planet has the fastest rotations (is the fastest Spinner)?
Jupiter
How big of a planet would be created if all of the asteroids in the Asteroid Belt were combined?
The size of Earth's moon
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If Pluto was still a planet would it be a Gas Giant or a Terrestrial Planet?
CONTEX- Pluto is very FAR from the SUN, COLD, ICY, with 5 moons what category of planet would you say Pluto is?
Gas Giant
Gas Giants Have more than 2 moons are far from the Sun and are extremely cold
How far is the Kuiper Belt from the sun?
4.5-7.4 billion miles away
Why might a person burn up, or freeze while on the planet Mercury?
With Mercury being only 36 million miles away from the Sun (very close Earth is 93 million miles away from the sun) it gets extremely hot.
With Mercury's day taking 59 Earth days the opposite side of Mercury gets extremely cold and one would definitely freeze on the opposite side of Mercury.
Which of the outer planets would float on water and why?
Saturn/ Because it's less dense than water
How thick is the Asteroid belt?
1 Astronomical Unit thick.
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If Pluto was still a planet would it be a Gas Giant or a Terrestrial Planet?
CONTEX- Pluto is a very SMALL, ROCKY planet.
Terrestrial Planet because the attributes given
Which Planets have Rings?
Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune
outer planets