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Choose Inner Planets or Outer Planets: Which group of planets have a smaller diameter?
Inner Planets
What are small icy objects that orbit the Sun?
Comets
Which planet rotates backwards compared to Earth? a) Uranus or B) Saturn?
a) Uranus
Which is the most famous dwarf planet?
Pluto
Which planet lies on its side?
Uranus
What keeps Earth and other planets in their orbits around the Sun?
Gravity
What do you call a scientist who studies outer space?
Astronomer
Small mass of dust and ice that originates in an area beyond Pluto called the Oort cloud
comet
Name the 4 outer planets (farthest from the sun) and give a brief description.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - gas giants, freezing temperatures, many moons, and ring systems
Name the 2 places where asteroids are located in the solar system.
Wide area between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter/ area past Pluto, know as the Kuiper Belt
Name the 4 inner planets (closest to the sun) and give a brief description.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars - small and rocky
Name two dwarf planets
Pluto, Ceres, Eris...
How do we call the plane in which the planets orbit the Sun?
The ecliptic.
What is the universe doing since its origin?
Expanding
Which theory said that the Earth was in the centre of the universe?
Geocentric theory
What is the hottest planet in the Solar System?
Venus
A group of stars and gas held together by gravity
A galaxy
A large cloud of gas and dust in space, where stars are born.
A nebula
The distance light travels in one year.
A light year
Which planets have solid surfaces, few moons and no rings?
Terrestrial planets
What is the name of our galaxy?
The Milky Way
What do we call the imaginary line that goes from the North Pole to the South Pole?
axis
How can the planets in our solar system be divided?
Terrestrial and Jovian
One revolution of the Earth around the Sun takes .........
one year.
The Earth moves in an ellipse shape. This is called an ........... .
Orbit
............ is the biggest planet.
Jupiter
Planets give light. True or False
False. The planets do not give light.
Is this a star or a planet?
planet
The Moon is a ..................... of the Earth.
satellite
______________________ is when the earth moves on its axis.
Rotation
The farthest planet from the sun is…
Neptune
What is the closest planet to the Sun?
Mercury
Does Mars have an atmosphere?
Yes
How many planets are there in our solar system?
8
The largest planet in the Solar System is…
Jupiter
Stars, planets and satellites make groups called ........... .
Planetary systems