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Solar System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. How do you remember the order of the planets? | By using the sentence: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune |
| 2. What are the Inner planets? | They are the 4 planets closest to the sun (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars). |
| 3. What do you call the Inner Planets? | Terrestrial (Like Earth) |
| 4. What is Mars also known as? | The Red Planet |
| 5. What are the outer planets? | They are the 4 planets furthest from the sun (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune). |
| 6. What are the Outer planets made of? | Gas (Sometimes called gas giants) and all have a ring system |
| 7. What is our largest planet? | It is Jupiter and it has a bid red spot on it, which is actually a storm. |
| 8. What separates the Inner and Outer planets? | The asteroid belt. |
| 9. What is located at the center of the Solar System? | The Sun. |
| 10. What galaxy do we live in? | The Milky Way. |
| 11. What else does our Solar System have? | Dwarf Planets such as Pluto. |
| 12. Why does The Sun look the biggest star in the sky? | It is the closest star. |
| 13. What Orbits around The Sun? | All 8 of the planets, plus the dwarf planets |
| 14, How do we learn more about space? | Technology keeps changing. |