What is the Sun?
Why do planets revolve around the sun?
What are the inner planets?
What are the outer planets and beyond?
Vocabulary
100

A huge ball of very hot gas that gives off energy.

What is a star?

100

Is a shape like an oval.

What is an ellipse?

100

Closest planet to the sun.

What is Mercury?

100

The fifth planet from the Sun.

What is Jupiter?

100

A system that includes planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and the Sun.

What is the Solar System?

200

A system made of the Sun and its planets, along with many moons, asteroids, and comets.

What  is the Solar System?

200

A large, round object that moves around a star, such as the sun.

What is the planet?

200

The second planet from the Sun.

What is Venus?

200

The sixth planet from the Sun.

What is Saturn?

200

A huge ball of very hot glass that gives off energy.

What is a star?

300

The distance light travels in one year.

What are light years?

300

Is an object that orbits another object in space.

What is a satellite?

300

The third planet from the Sun.

What is Earth?

300

The seventh planet from the Sun.

What is Uranus?

300

A shape like an oval.

What is an ellipse?

400

Causes a bright spot on the sun.

What are Solar Flares?

400

The Sun, planets, moons, comets, and atseroids complete what?

What is the Solar System?

400

The fourth planet from the Sun.

What is Mars?

400

The eighth planet from the Sun.

What is Neptune?

400
A large, round object that moves around a star, such a the sun.

What is a planet?

500

Looks like a ribbon of glowing gases on the Sun during Solar Eruptions.

What is Prominence?

500

Name three dwarf planets.

What is Pluto, Eris, and Ceres?

500

A giant cloud of dust and evaporated gases.

Part of a comet.

What is the Coma?

500

The ninth planet from the Sun.

What is Pluto?

500

An object the orbits another object in space.

What is a satellite?