What are MERCURY, VENUS, EARTH and MARS?
Sometimes these planets are called the "inner planets" or the "terrestrial planets" too.
100
This object is sometimes called a "dirty snowball"
What is a COMET?
100
The planet with a giant red spot that is a giant storm
What is Jupiter?
200
The largest planet
What is Jupiter?
200
The planet farthest from the Sun
What is NEPTUNE?
200
Name all the planets that have gaseous surfaces
What are JUPITER, SATURN, URANUS, and NEPTUNE?
These planets are also called the "outer planets" and the "gas giants".
200
A small frozen mass of dust and gases that travels through the solar system. As it passes the sun, it leaves a trail.
What is a COMET?
200
The planet with a THICK atmosphere of carbon dioxide gas
What is VENUS?
300
The planet that is 1/2 the size of Earth
What is MARS?
300
The asteroid belt is between these two planets
What are MARS and JUPITER?
300
This planet has the largest volcano in our solar system
What is MARS? The volcano is called Olympus Mons.
300
A lump of rock or metal that enters Earth's atmosphere and burns
What is a METEOR?
300
The hottest planet in our solar system
What is VENUS?
400
The planet that is just a little smaller than Earth
What is VENUS (our sister planet)?
400
List all of the OUTER PLANETS
What are JUPITER, SATURN, URANUS, and NEPTUNE?
400
The planets with atmospheres that are MOSTLY carbon dioxide
What are VENUS (a thick atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide) and MARS (a thin atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide)?
400
Enormous rocks or boulders that revolve around the Sun, usually between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
What are ASTEROIDS?
400
This planet spins like it has been tilted on its side
What is URANUS?
500
List the planets in order based ON THEIR SIZE, starting with the LARGEST planet
What is JUPITER, SATURN, URANUS, NEPTUNE, EARTH, VENUS, MARS, MERCURY?
500
List all the planets in order, starting with the planet closest to the Sun
What are MERCURY, VENUS, EARTH, MARS, JUPITER, SATURN, URANUS, and NEPTUNE?
Hint: My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Noodles
500
The planets that have atmospheres made up of mostly helium and hydrogen
What are the gas giants (JUPITER, SATURN, URANUS, and NEPTUNE)?
500
Comets are found in these locations (be specific).
What is the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud?
500
List at least three things that the outer planets have in common.
Answers vary.
What are: 1) no solid surface (gas giants), 2) atmospheres with helium and hydrogen, 3) temperatures too cold for liquid water so life is not likely, 4) all have rings, 5) all are larger than Earth