MVMS Planets
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Asteroids | Small rocky bodies in orbit around the sun. (Asteroid Belt between Mars & Jupiter
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| Comet | Small body of ice, rock and cosmic dust loosely packed together. Tail points away from Sun.
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| Oort Cloud | Where the comets are found, past Pluto.
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| Meteoroid | Small rocky body orbiting the sun. Similar to an asteroid but smaller.
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| Meteor | Bright streak of light caused by a meteoroid burning up in the Earth’s Atmosphere. (Shooting star)
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| Meteorite | Meteoroid that enters the Earth’s atmosphere and strikes the ground.
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| Axis | Planets rotate on this.
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| Milky Way | The name of our spiral galaxy.
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| Ellipse | Shape of the planets orbit.
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| Rotate | Turn on axis. One day.
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| Revolve | To orbit. One year.
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| Terrestrial planet | Planets with solid hard surface.
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| Gas planet | Planets made of gas.
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| Sun | The only star in our solar system.
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| Mercury | Planet with very high and low temperatures. Many craters.
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| Venus | Hottest brightest planet. Day longer than year.
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| Earth | Water planet.
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| Mars | Red planet due to iron oxide in soil.
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| Jupiter | Largest planet. Big Red Spot.
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| Saturn | Planet with the most rings.
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| Uranus | Axis tilted. Planet spins on its side.
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| Neptune | Named after the God of the Sea.
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| Pluto | Dwarf planet. Icy surface.
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