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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the average distance between earth and the sun | astronomical unit
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one of the highly dense planets nearest to the sun | terrestrial planet
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the counter-clockwise spin of a planet or moon | prograde rotation
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the clockwise spin of a planet or moon | retrograde rotation
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a planet with a deep massive atmosphere | gas giant
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a natural or artificial body that revolves around the sun | satellite
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a change in the sunlit area | phase
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the event when a body's shadow falls on another | eclipse
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a small body of ice, rock, and dust | comet
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a small rocky body that orbits the sun | asteriod
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a reigon between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter | asteriod belt
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meteroid | small rocky body that travels through space
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metorite | a meteroid that reaches earth without burning up completely
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meteor | a streak of light that results when a meteroid burns up in the earth's atmosphere
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