Inner Planets
The planet closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
Nick name for the outer planets.
What are gas giants?
The dwarf planet that was once considered a planet up until the early 2000s
What is Pluto?
The more massive planets.
What are the Jovian planets?
Name an interesting fact about the planet you did your research project on.
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The name for the inner planets.
What are terrestrial planets?
Name for the outer planets.
What are Jovian planets?
An object that meets some of the criteria to be a planet but not all.
What is a dwarf planet?
What is going to happen to the inner planets when the sun moves into its red giant phase?
The 3 inner planets will be engulfed or nearly engulfed by the sun.
The planet that rotates on its side.
What is Uranus?
On this planet, NASA is carrying out multiple missions using rovers in search fpr ancient life.
What is Mars?
The largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
Name all 8 planets in order from closest to furthest from the sun.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
The planet with 82 moons.
What is Saturn?
These planets are more dense, smaller and are made of rocky materials.
What are terrestrial OR inner planets?
This planet is known for its runaway greenhouse effect and clouds of sulfuric acid.
What is Venus?
The planet with visible rings.
What is Saturn?
The one criteria that Pluto does not meet in order to be considered a planet.
It must have cleared the neighborhood of its orbit from other bodies.
The boundary in the solar system nebula in which ice could condense.
What is the frost line?
These planets are less dense, larger and made of gasses.
What are Jovian planets OR outer planets?
The Mars Rover that landed on Mars in February 2021
What is Perseverance?
Explain why the inner planets are made of rocky material and the outer planets are made of gasses.
The heavier rocky and metallic materials were better suited to condense at higher temperatures (closer to the sun). Beyond the frostline, water and other gasses could freeze forming the outer planets.
The three criteria that makes something a planet.
It must orbit the sun
It must have enough mass to be nearly spherical
It must have cleared the neighborhood of its orbit from other bodies
How much larger is the sun than the earth?
109 times larger
The planets with rings.
What are the Jovian planets / outer planets? OR
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?