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Mostly rock, some traces of metal, irregularly shaped and orbits the sun.
What is an asteroid?
100
The planets in order from the closest to the sun to furthest away.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
100
They all have rings.
What are the outer planets?
100

Some objects are invisible in space, but scientists know they exist because of this.

What is radio waves or x-rays?

100

How are pictures from space sent to Earth?

satellites

200
They are rocky and small.
What are the inner planets?
200

Books often show pictures of the planets, but something is wrong. Hint we did this as a scale model.

What is the distance that the planets are apart?

200
Another word for sun.
What is star?
200

The discovery of non-light emitting celestial bodies were found mainly through this.

What is a telescope?

200
How would you see the rings on Saturn?
By using a telescope.
300
They are very large and made of gases.
What are the outer planets?
300
A shooting star
What is a meteor?
300
The center of our universe and what all the planets revolve around.
What is the sun or star?
300

This is why computers are so important in understanding our solar system.

What is we can collect and analyze data fast enough?

300
How do we understand the moon by looking at it through a telescope?
It tells us what the surface features look like.
400
You would see lots of moons if you lived on this planet.
What is what you would see if you lived on Jupiter?
400
When this celestial object is on the surface of Earth, it is named something different than when it is in space or shooting through the atmosphere.
What is a meteorite?
400

The two forces that hold the planets in their orbits around the sun.

What are gravity and inertia?

400

Which of these things would we not need on a probe: digital camera, microphone, chemical analyzer, or radio transmitter?

What is a microphone? No one is in it to talk!!

400

Space travel is difficult for people because of these three things.

What are distance, expense, and danger?

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It is first planet in the solar system.
What is Mercury?
500
A rocky, irregularly shaped object in our solar system that is not an asteroid.
What is a meteoroid?
500
Objects that have more mass also have more of this.
What is gravity?
500

Why do the Hubble Space Telescope and probes give us more information that telescopes on Earth?

Because they are in the atmosphere.

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Why can’t we see Venus through a telescope?
Because Venus is covered in clouds.