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Vocabulary
Skill Review
Planet vs Planet
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Planets Rock!!
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Which planet has the GREATEST gravitional effect from the sun and why?

MERCURY!!!! It's small and close to the sun

100
Can you summarize in one sentence the 2 main features of the solar system?
What is The solar system is mainly made up of the sun and 8 planets.
100
What is "Earth's Satellite"?
What is the moon?
100

What are 3 characteristics to describe an "inner planet" vs. an "outer planet" (think of location, size, amounts of moons, distance from the sun, etc.)

Inner planets = less moons, rocky, closer to the fun, closer to other planets, inside the "asteroid belt", 
100
What is the only planet that has plants and animals?
What is Earth?
200
At a greater distance than something else
What is farther
200
How many syllables does the word temperatures have?
What is 4?
200
How many planets have rings?
What is 4
200
If you thought you saw a shooting star in the sky, what did you actually see?
What is a meteor?
200
What planet is farthest from the sun and has a temperature of -328 degrees below zero (not including dwarf planets)?
What is Neptune?
300
What is the difference between revolution and a rotation of a planet?

Revolution revolves orbiting around a planet, rotation is the spinning of a planet.

300
What is the genre of The Planets of Our Solar System?
What is informational non-fiction?
300
Which planet takes 88 days to circle the sun? It is very close to the sun.
What is Mercury?
300
What are big chunks of rock that go around the sun that can be as big as a house, mountain, or even bigger?
What is an asteroid?
300
What is the smallest planet (not including dwarf planets)?
What is Mercury?
400
Having or giving little light, not bright
What is dim?
400

Which has higher orbital speed, Earth or Jupiter? Why?

Earth is closer and has a stronger gravitional pull from the sun.

400

What are some reasons that make Earth habitable?

Its position in the solar system, the presence of liquid water, a protective atmosphere and magnetic field, and internal geological activity

400
What are collections of ice, gas, and dust? The tail of these might be millions of miles long,
What is a comet?
400
What are the 2 hottest planets?
What is Mercury and Venus?
500

As the planet's distance from the sun (increases/decreases) then the orbital velocity (increases/decreases) 

as the planet's distance from the sun increases, the orbital velocity decreases

500
Contrast Earth with another planet in one sentence.
What is ... (answers will vary)
500
Name at least 3 planets can bee seen in the night sky? (There are 5)
What is Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn?
500

Which planet would most likely have the LONGEST YEAR? (think about distance!)

Neptune! It is the furthest and revolves the slowest

500
Name the planets in order.
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