Inner Planets
The Inner planets in order from the Sun
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
The outer planets are also known as
What is Gas Giants?
Everything in the Solar System revolves around this massive object.
What is our Sun?
These can be as small as pebbles or as large as hundreds of miles across (diameter)
What are Asteroids?
is the coldest and windiest planet of the solar system.
What is Neptune?
The smallest planet in our solar system
What is Mercury?
The giant storm on Jupiter is known as:
What is the Great Red Storm?
These orbit planets and asteroids rather than the Sun
What are moons?
Also known as dirty snowballs
What is a comet?
Saturns rings are made mostly of this.
The only planet with life and liquid water
What is Earth?
Jupiter is the ________ planet of the Solar System.
What is the Largest?
A region on the edge of our Solar System with icy objects like comets and Pluto.
What is the Kuiper belt?
These tend to be parts of asteroids floating in space
what are meteroids?
A storm on Neptune
What is the Great Dark Spot?
The largest Volcano in the Solar system is found on this planet.
What is Mars?
This makes Uranus unique.
What is it spins on its side?
Most models of the Solar System do not show this accurately.
What is the distance between planets?
When meteoroids do not burn up completely in our atmosphere, they can hit earth.
What are meteorites?
The ______ makes Uranus and Neptune appear blue?
What is the methane gas?
Its thick atmosphere traps heat like a greenhouse.
What is Venus?
List the planet(s) with rings
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
Our Solar System is found in this galaxy.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
The friction in Earths atmosphere cause these to burn up and look like "shooting stars"
What are meteors?
This characteristic helped scientists reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet
What is it's orbit crossed the paths of other planet's orbits?