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Ch. 9-L3-Planets
Outer Space
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the names of the inner planets of the Solar System? | Mercury, Venus, Earth, & Mars |
| What are the names of the outer gas giant planets of the Solar System? | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune |
| What area is located between the planet Mars and Jupiter? | The Asteroid Belt |
| What is known as a frozen mass of different type of ices and dust that is orbiting the sun? | A comet |
| What is known as a piece of asteroid that is big or small that starts to break apart when it enters into Earth's atmosphere? | A meteoroid |
| Pluto in the past was considered the 9th planet in the solar system, but it is not a gas giant planet and is too small to have any moons. what is it considered to be? | A dwarf planet |
| In the process of a dying star, it starts to emit large amounts of gravity toward its center, what is this called? | A black hole |
| What is the name of the star that has planets rotating around it in the Milky Way solar system? | The Sun |
| What is the name of that astronomer that discovered the dwarf planet “Pluto”? | Clyde Tombaugh |
| What two outer planets have the most moons that are seen from a telescope from Earth? | Jupiter & Saturn |
| It was even theorized that a “meteorite” ended on the “what” in the early part of the Earth’s existences? | “Dinosaur Era” |
| What are meteors that are bright and fast moving objects in outer space called? | Shooting Stars |
| Meteors that enter into Earth’s atmosphere form into what is known as what? | Meteorites |
| What is the different between the orbit of the planets and the orbit of Pluto in the Solar System? | Pluto’s orbits is not aligned like the other planets |
| What is a rocky mass up to several hundred kilometers wide that revolves around the sun? | An Asteroid |
| Most asteroids are described as what in outer space? | Uneven shaped rocks that are large or small |
| In 1930, what planet of was discovered by an Earth astronomer and is concerned to the farther planet from the Sun/? | Pluto |
| What are natural solid objects that revolve around other planets in the Solar System? | Moons |
| Because Pluto is not a Gas Giant planet, what type of planet is Pluto? | A Dwarf Planet |
| Which planet in the Solar System has the most moons orbiting it? | Jupiter |
| Which planet is said to be the most beautiful planet because of the rings it has orbiting it in outer space? | Saturn |
| What are the name of the two moons that orbit Mars in the inner Solar System? | Phobos and Deimos |
| Which planet was possibility hit by a comet or asteroid which caused it to tilt to its self and roll like a ball in the Solar System orbit around the Sun? | Uranus |
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