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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mercury | Closet planet to the sun Not the hottest-so small it lacks gravity and atmosphere |
| Venus | Hottest planet Greenhouse effect day is longer than a year-rotation time is Longer than its revolution Acid clouds |
| Earth | Only planet with known life moderate temperature protective atmosphere liquid water |
| Mars | Largest mountain Olympus mons possible signs of life |
| Terrestrial plantets | The four inner planets |
| Green house effect | Occurs when a planet atmosphere traps solar energy and causes the temperature to increase |
| Saturn | Most complex ring system titanbiggist moon |
| Uranus | Rotation axis is tilted 90 degrees |
| Neptune | Longest period of rotation swirling storms |
| Gas giants | Jupiter Saturn Neptune nickname for the 4outer planets |
| Galilean moons | 4 moons galio discovered around Jupiter io europa Ganymede Callisto |
| Dwarf planeT | Pluto was the first same as planet but not larger than it neighbors ceres in the asteroid belt |