Science Ch. 11
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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| show | Sun, terrestrial planets
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| show | rock
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| The outer layers of the inner planets are in the ____ state. | show 🗑
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| _____ is the closest planet closest to the Sun. | show 🗑
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| Mercury has no gases close to its surface, which means it has no______. | show 🗑
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| Because of its small mass, Mercury's ______ is not strong enough to hold to its surface. | show 🗑
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| Because Mercury has no wind to move energy from place to place, the temperatures on the side of Mercury facing the Sun are always extremely ____. | show 🗑
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| Mercury's surface is covered with __ ____, smooth plains, and high cliffs. | show 🗑
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| show | Venus
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| venus ______ more slowly than it revolves, so a day on venus is longer than a year on earth. | show 🗑
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| show | east, west
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| show | carbon dioxide
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| show | clouds
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| show | acid
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| Venus is the _____ planet in the solar system. | show 🗑
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| show | greenhouse effect
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| show | carbon dioxide
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| Most of the surface of Venus is covered by solidified ______ | show 🗑
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| show | Earth
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| show | water vapor
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| the atmosphere produces a _______ ____ that increases Earth's average surface temperature. | show 🗑
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| show | Life
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| show | liquid
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| the ____ surrounds the outer core | show 🗑
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| show | plates
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| show | fourth
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| Many probes have examined the surface of Mars; most have looked for signs of _____. | show 🗑
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| show | carbon dioxide
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| show | volcano
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| The outer planets are made of materials that are usually ____ on Earth. | show 🗑
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| show | liquids
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| show | Jupiter
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| show | rotates
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| jupiter has a system of _____ around it. | show 🗑
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| Jupiter's rotation stretches its clouds into colorful ____ _____ | show 🗑
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| The ___ ____ ____ on jupiter is a storm that has lasted more than 300 years | show 🗑
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| the four largest moons of Jupiter are called the ____ ____. | show 🗑
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| show | rapidly
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| show | ring
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| Saturn has ____ bands of rings, each of which contains thousands of smaller rings. | show 🗑
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| show | ice
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| Most of Saturn's moons are small, but one of them,____, is larger than the planet Mercury | show 🗑
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| Venus rotates ______ | show 🗑
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| Uranus might have a rocky ______ | show 🗑
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| show | Jupiter
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| The rotational axis of Uranus is _____ more than the other planets | show 🗑
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| show | Uranus
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| show | star
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| show | mass
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| show | Pluto
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| Asteroids orbit the Sun in a band between _____ and Jupiter | show 🗑
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| show | ice
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| comets are made up of rocks, ice, and ____ | show 🗑
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| _____ between the particles in a comet holds it together | show 🗑
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| comets ____ the Sun in long elliptical orbits | show 🗑
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| As a comet approaches the Sun, a bright ____ can develop on the comet | show 🗑
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| show | nucleus
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| show | gas
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| Energy from the Sun pushes gas and dust particles away from the nucleus and makes it ______ | show 🗑
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| show | meteoroid
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| show | glow
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| A streak of light in the atmosphere made by a glowing meteoroid is a _____ | show 🗑
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| show | burn
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| show | meteorite
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| A meteorite can form a bowl- shaped depression called a ______ ____ in the surface it strikes | show 🗑
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| show | planets
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| show | solar system
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| show | Sun
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| he Sun is a star made up of mostly ___ gas. | show 🗑
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| ____ _____ produces enormous amounts of energy in the Sun. | show 🗑
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| show | Sun
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| show | Nuclear Fusion
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| The Sun is a star made up mostly of _____ gas. | show 🗑
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| Objects that orbit the Sun include planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, and _____. These objects _____ the Sun's light. | show 🗑
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| show | gravitational
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| A planet has a nearly ______ shape | show 🗑
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| the mass of a planet is much ____ than the mass of nearby objects | show 🗑
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| show | eight
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| show | inner
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| Inner planets are made mainly from ____ ____ materials | show 🗑
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| The four planets farthest from the Sun are called the ____ planets | show 🗑
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| Outer planets are made mostly of ice and ____ | show 🗑
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| Because the outer planets are much larger than the inner planets, they are sometimes called___ ___ | show 🗑
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| A ____ ____ is a spherical object that orbits the Sun, is not the moon of another planet, and has less mass any of the other planets | show 🗑
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| Millions of small, rocky objects called _____ orbit the sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter | show 🗑
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| A ____ orbits the sun in an oval- shaped orbit and is made of dust, gas, and ice | show 🗑
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| The _______ ______ is used to measure long distances in the solar system | show 🗑
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| One astronomical unit (AU)is the average distance from Earth to the ____ | show 🗑
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| One way an object in the solar system moves is by orbiting, or ____, around another object | show 🗑
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| the amount of time it takes an object to revolve once around the sun is its ____ __ ______ | show 🗑
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| Objects in the solar system also spin, or _____ | show 🗑
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| show | period of rotation
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| show | ellipse
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| The Sun is at one of the _____ of the ellipse, so the distance between a planet and the Sun changes as the planet moves | show 🗑
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| show | faster
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| What is the order of the eight planets? Starting form the Sun | show 🗑
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| show | foci
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| show | Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, eris, Haumea
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