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Solar system - planets

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  • What is the sun made of?
    hydrogen and helium
  • This planet has the most beautiful rings
    Saturn
  • A celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a ‘tail’ of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun
    Comet
  • The hottest planet is
    Venus
  • An artificial body placed in orbit round the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication
    Satellite
  • The natural satellite of the earth, visible (mainly at night) by reflected light from the sun
    Moon
  • Small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets but they are much smaller than planets.
    Asteroids
  • It is dark, cold, and very windy. It's the last of the planets in our solar system
    Neptune
  • Beautiful light shows in the sky near the North or South Pole
    Auroras
  • The first man to land on the moon
    Neil Armstrong
  • The leading explanation about how the universe began
    The Big Bang theory
  • The volume of this planet could hold more than 1,300 Earths. What planet is it?
    Jupiter
  • The galaxy that contains our Solar System
    The Milky Way
  • An intense shaking of Earth’s surface is called....
    Earthquake
  • A .... ...... happens when the moon gets in the way of the sun’s light and casts its shadow on Earth. That means during the day, the moon moves over the sun and it gets dark
    Solar eclipse
  • A mysterious object seen in the sky for which it is claimed no scientific explanation can be found
    UFO
  • A person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft, a spaceman
    Astronaut
  • ......is a type of electromagnetic radiation that makes black-light posters glow, and is responsible for summer tans — and sunburns
    UV - Ultraviolet light
  • Saturn is further from the Sun than Jupiter: True or False
    True
  • The first planet discovered with the use of a telescope. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System
    Uranus
  • The biggest planet in our solar system
    Jupiter
  • This planet is named after the Roman god of the sea
    Neptune
  • A vehicle used for travelling in space
    Spacecraft
  • It is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center. Its force keeps all of the planets in orbit around the sun.
    Gravity