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Terrestial Planets
Gas planets
Solar System
Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors
Definitions
100
This planet is reddish and has frozen ice caps
What is Mars?
100
This is the largest planet in the solar system
What is Jupiter?
100
This planet in our solar system has the most rings.
What is Saturn?
100
This also known as a shooting star.
What is a meteor?
100
These are small bodies that orbit planets
What is the moon?
200
This is the smallest planet in our solar system.
What is Mercury
200
This is the only planet lying on its side.
What is Uranus?
200
This is the order of the planets in our solar system from closest to sun to farthest.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
200
This is what you call a flying rock in space that becomes a meteor once it hits Earth.
What is a meteoroid?
200
counterclockwise rotation
What is prograde rotation?
300
This is the only terrestial planet that has a retrograde rotation (rotates clockwise)
What is Venus?
300
These two planets have stormy dark spots.
What are Jupiter and Neptune?
300
Pluto is considered this because it is too small to be a planet.
What is a dwarf planet?
300
This is made out of frozen gas, water, ammonia, and is cold to the touch.
What is a comet?
300
This is what you call when a planet spins on its axis
What is a rotation?
400
These are considered terrestial planets
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
400
This planet has the most moons.
What is Jupiter?
400
These planets are also known as the outer planets.
What are gas planets?
400
This is a rocky object that orbits the sun.
What is an asteroid?
400
This is what you call when a planet spins around the sun
What is a revolution?
500
This planet is considered the hottest due to the thick amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
What is Venus?
500
This planet has a moon called Triton that has frozen lakes on it.
What is Neptune?
500
This is found in the milky way galaxy and has 8 planets and a sun.
What is the solar system?
500
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What is a comet?
500
Clockwise rotation
retrograde rotation.