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Earth and Solar System
Question | Answer |
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What are asteroids? | they are pieces of a broken planet. |
What is the order of the planets? | 1.Mercury 2.Venus 3.Earth 4.Mars 5.Jupiter 6.Saturn 7.Uranus 8.Neptune |
Earth have seasons because? | they tilt. |
The moon's gravitational pull causes what? | it causes tides. |
What is earth's natural satellite? | it is the moon. |
The Impact Theory states what? | it states that the moon formed when a large object struck the earth and material from inside the earth was ejected out in space and this material formed the moon. |
Apollo moon landings gave us information about what? | about the moon. |
Moon rocks shows us what? | that they were bone dry and high density much like the earth's mantle rocks. |
What is the sun made up of? | it is made up mostly of hydrogen and helium and produces heat by fusion. |
Planetary orbiters give us what? | it gives us specific information about the planets that they orbit. |