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Inner Planets
Outer Planets
Asteroids
Meteors/Meteoroids
Meteorite
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88 Earth days
What is a year on Mercury?
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The Great Dark Spot
Neptune has a storm similar to Jupiter's called_____.
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The Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter
Where are most asteroids located?
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Float in space and orbit the Sun
A meteoroid is similar to an asteroid because they both_____.
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A meteor survives the atmosphere and crashes into Earth's surface
A meteorite forms when____.
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Size and Density
What is Venus most similar to Earth in___.
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Its planetary rings
What feature is Saturn most famous for?
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Small, rocky bodies that orbit the Sun
What is an asteroid?
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A meteor shower
What is a cluster of meteoroids called?
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They provide clues to our solar system
Why are meteorites valuable to scientists?
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Carbon Dioxide with a bit of sulfur dioxide
What are clouds on Venus mostly made of___?
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Ammonia
The upper layers of Jupiter's atmosphere contains clouds of___?
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They don't have enough gravity to become round.
Why are asteroids irregularly shaped?
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Shooting stars
What are meteors sometimes called?
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An asteroid
What other terrestial body is a meteorite similar to?
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Olympus Mons
What is the largest mountain/volcano on Mars?
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Sunlight
Uranus' clouds of methane give off a red light when filtering____.
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Points of light, just like stars
Through a telescope, asteroids look like____.
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Meteors burn up in the atmosphere
Meteors differ from meteoroids because______.
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Rocks that crashed on Earth's surface
What are meteorites?
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Phobos and Deimos
What are the names of Mars' two moons?
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Uranus
Just like Venus and Earth, Neptune and____are similar planets in size.
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Atmosphere
Asteroids are too small to maintain an____.
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Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorite
Order meteorite, meteoroid and meteor in sixe from smallest to biggest.