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Vocabulary
inner planets
outer planets
planet order
misellaneous
100
These objects are made of ice, rock, frozen gases and dust.
What are comets?
100
The only planet that can sustain life.
What is Earth?
100
The largest planet, colorful storm bands, rotates once in 10 hours, Great Red Spot, faint rings, at least 60 moons.
What is Jupiter?
100
Third planet from the sun.
What is Earth?
100
Sixth planet from the Sun.
What is Saturn?
200
Includes the sun, all eight planets, their moons, and all other objects that revolve around the sun.
What is the solar system?
200
The "red planet" iron in rock and soil, two moons, thin atmosphere, rotates once every 24 hours and 38 minutes, year lasts 687 Earth days.
What is Mars?
200
Greenish blue, rotates on its side, ring system, at least 22 moons, a year lasts 85 Earth years, rotates once in 17 hours.
What is Uranus?
200
First planet.
What is Mercury?
300
This is the pull between the objects in the solar system is what holds the solar system together.
What is gravity?
300
Very bright, greenhouse effect with carbon dioxide in atmosphere, rotates in opposite direction from other planets, day lasts 243 Earth days.
What is Venus?
300
Second largest planet, tilted on its axis, stormy bands of clouds, rotates once in 11 hours, 31 known moons and one has an atmosphere.
What is Saturn?
300
Last planet from the sun.
What is Neptune?
300
Second planet from the Sun.
What is Venus?
400
These rocky objects, smaller then planets, that have their own orbits around the sun or another star.
What are asteroids?
400
Fastest moving, almost no atmosphere so very hot and very cold, planet rotates once every 59 Earth days.
What is Mercury?
400
Fifth planet from the Sun (first planet after asteroid belt)
What is Jupiter?
400
Sunspots give off less energy and are _______ than the rest of the sun.
What is cooler?
500
Brief streaks of light seen when asteroids enter Earth's atmosphere.
What are meteors?
500
The asteroid belt lies between these two planets.
What is Mars and Jupiter?
500
This object is no longer considered a planet. It is also the name of a cartoon dog.
What is Pluto?
500
Seventh planet from the Sun.
What is Uranus?
500
This layer of the sun gives off the light we see.
What is photosphere?