The largest planet in the Solar System
What is Jupiter?
This means "the turning of a planet on its axis"
What is Rotation?
They create bright streaks in the night sky as they burn up while passing through the Earth's atmosphere
What are Meteors?
This is the farthest "true" planet from the Sun
What is Neptune?
The Moon's diameter is this fraction of the Earth's
What is one quarter?
The planets located to the inside of the Asteroid Belt, closest to the sun
What are the Terrestrial Planets?
This means "movement of one body in an orbit around another"
What is Revolution?
Chunks of space rock that manage to get through the Earth's atmosphere and crash to the ground
What are Meteorites?
As these bodies approach the sun in their orbits, they grow these
What are Comet Tails?
This is about how long it takes for the Moon to make a trip around the Earth
What is 27.3 days?
It has seasons, like Earth does
What is Mars?
Earth has only one natural one
What is Satellite?
These icy objects make their way around the sun in very elongated paths
What are comets?
The new category given to Pluto and many other objects
What is a Dwarf Planet
The name of what were originally thought to be Oceans on the moon?
What is Mare (Maria plural)?
These two planets have ring systems
What are Saturn and Uranus?
This planet takes the least time to make a trip around the sun
What is Mercury?
Irregularly shaped and sized chunks whose pathway around the sun is mostly confined to a region between Mars and Jupiter
What are Asteroids?
Earth's very hot neighbor, the 2nd rock from the Sun
What is Venus?
These lunar features have been caused impacts of space rocks (meteoroids)
What are Craters?
This planet's density is so low that it could float in a bathtub (if you could find one big enough)
What is Saturn?
The shape of orbital paths around the sun
What is an ellipse?
Remnants of comets show up as these predictable spectacles in the night sky, notably the Perseids in August
What are Meteor Showers?
Liquid water has been discovered here
What is Mars?
No weather occurs on the moon because this doesn't exist around it
What is an Atmosphere?