Planets
The only planet that supports life
What is Earth?
The term for the sun and the objects that orbit around it?
What is the solar system?
A large, rocky object that orbits planets.
What is a moon?
The planet with a watery surface
What is Earth?
The path an object takes as it moves around another object in space.
What is an orbit?
The force that helps hold the objects in the solar system in orbit.
What is gravity?
The inner planets
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
A large body of rock or gas that orbits the sun
What is a planet?
These planets have rocky surfaces, are closer to the sun, and have no more than two moons.
What are the inner planets?
The outer planets.
What are Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune?
It is a star and a hot ball of glowing gases.
What is the sun?
These planets are made of frozen gas, very far from the sun, and larger in size.
What are the outer planets?
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
A chunk of rock or metal that orbits the sun.
What is an asteroid?
The dwarf planet in our solar system
What is Pluto?