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Planets
Gravity
Scale
Movement
Sun
100
The planet that is furthest from the sun.
What is Neptune?
100
The force that keeps planets from flying off into space.
What is gravity (gravitational force)?
100
What scientists make to accurately represent an object that is too big or too small to comprehend.
What is a scale model?
100
The repeating path an object takes to travel around another object (ex: the moon around Earth)
What is an orbit?
100
The distance from the sun to Earth (150 million KM).
What is an Astronomical Unit or AU?
200
It completes a rotation in 10 hours, it is 778 million miles from the sun, and it is the largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
200
The forward motion of an object.
What is inertia?
200
Compared to the size of the planets, the distances between the planets is much _____________________.
What is "greater" (or "larger" or "bigger") ?
200
The movement of a planet as it spins on its axis.
What is rotation?
200
The only star in our Solar System.
What is the Sun?
300
My surface temperature is 167 degrees, and I am the smallest planet.
What is Mercury?
300
When a feather is dropped with a marble, the reason the marble hits the ground first.
What is air resistance?
300
The size of Earth if it takes 777 steps to get from the sun to Neptune.
What is a peppercorn?
300
It takes Earth 365.25 days for this.
What is a revolution?
300
The sun is a mass of this state of matter.
What is a gas?
400
My rotation is closest to Earth's rotation.
What is Mars?
400
Two factors that affect gravity.
What are mass and distance?
400
The size of Earth if it takes 3.5 miles to get from the sun to Neptune.
What is a marble?
400
The planet with the FASTEST rotation.
What is Jupiter?
400
Our orbit around the sun results from a balance between these two things.
What is gravity and inertia?
500
My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nachos is a mnemonic device to help us remember this.
What is the order of the planets?
500
The person who is best known to have discovered gravity.
Who is (Isaac) Newton?
500
The distance from the Sun to Neptune, IF the Earth was the size of 10 pieces of hair. Choose: A. 1 cm B. 1 meter C. 100 meters
What is C. 100 meters?
500
The planet with the slowest rotation.
What is Venus?
500
This contains the Sun and all objects around it that are bound to it by gravity.
What is the Solar System?