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planets
the sun
the moon
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100
This is the planet that is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
100
The sun is the center of this system.
What is the solar system?
100

These are hollow pits on the surface of the moon.

What are craters?

100

The astroid belt is located between what two planets?

What are Mars and Jupiter? 

100

The sun rises in the what?

What is the east? 

200
This is the 3rd planet from the sun.
What is earth?
200
The sun is a type of this gas sphere that gives off light and heat.
What is a star?
200
The moon is a natural type of this that revolves around a bigger object.
What is a satellite?
200

The Kuiper Belt is located beyond what planet?

What is Neptune

200

Telescopes are a tool that helps do what to distant objects so that they appear closer?

What is magnify?

300
This is what all the planets have in common?
What is "they revolve around the sun?"
300
It takes the earth 365 days to do this.
What is revolve (orbit) around the sun?
300

This moon phase occurs when the moon is between the earth and sun so that the dark side of the moon faces earth.

What is the new moon phase?

300

The Kuiper Belt contains many balls of rock and ice that are called what? 

What are comets

300

The Earth rotates to which direction?

What is the east?

400
These are the rocky planets.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
400
This is how long it takes earth to complete one rotation.
What is 24 hours --or one day?
400
These are the apparent shapes of the moon.
What are phases?
400

What are the names of the two dwarf planets that we talked about in class?

What are Pluto and Eris

400

It is during this time of day that shadows are smallest.

What is midday (or noon)?

500
These are the gas giants.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
500

The Sun is over how many times greater in diameter than Earth?

What is 109 times?

500

When the sun light shines on more and more of the moon, we say that the moon is doing this.

What is waxing?

500
It takes this many minutes for sunlight to reach earth.
What is 8?
500

The moon's diameter is what of Earth's diamter?

What is 1/4