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Solar system
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Asteroid | Millions of small rocky objects that orbit the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter |
| Comets | Made of gas dust and ice |
| Inner planets | Terrestrial planets Solid rocky Mercury venues Earth mars |
| Outer planets | Gas giants Made of ice and gas Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Rings and moons Hydrogen and Helium |
| Planet | Spherical orbits the Sun and clears it’s orbit. |
| Mercury | Closest plant to the sun Not the hottest plant so small it lacks Gravity and atmospher |
| Versus | Hottest plant Greenhouse effect Days are longer than a year rotation time is longer than its revolution Acid clouds |
| Earth | Only planet known with life Modern temperature Protective atmosphere Liquid water |
| Mars | Largest known mountain Olympus mons Possible signs of life |
| Terrestrial planets | The four inner planets |
| Greenhouse effect. | Occurs when a plants atmosphere traps Solar energy and causes the temperature to increase. |
| Jupiter | Largest planet Galilean moons Great Red Spot |
| Saturn | Most complex ring system Least dense planet it would float Titan largest moon |
| Uranus | Rotation axis tilted 90 degrees So rotates like a bowling ball |
| Neptune | Longest period of revolution Swirling storms windiest planet |
| Gas giants | Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune nickname for the 4 outer planets |
| Galilean moons | 4 moons discovered around Jupiter It Europa Ganymede Callisto |
| Dwarf planet | Pluto was the first Same as planet but not larger than its neighbors Ceres in the asteroid belt |