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This is the hottest planet in the solar system
What is Venus?
This planet is known as Earth’s twin
What is Venus?
This is the name of earth’s moon.
What is Luna?
Describe the inner planets.
What is rocky and low mass?
This planet has an intense greenhouse effect
What is Venus?
Describe the outer planets.
What is high mass and gaseous?
This planet protects Earth from asteroids.
What is Jupiter?
This planet has a brilliant blue color due to the methane in its atmosphere. It is also called “Big Blue World.”
What is Neptune?
Give the name of these planets as a group: Earth, Mars, Mercury, and Venus.
What are the terrestrial, inner, or rocky planets?
This group of planets has the most moons.
What is the outer planets?
This unit of measurement is used to measure large distances in space, such as b/w stars or galaxies.
What is a light year?
This unit of measurement is equal to approximately 150 million kilometers or 93 million miles
What is an astronomical unit?
This unit of measurement is equal to the distance light can travel in one year (5.88 trillion miles)
What is a light-year?
It takes 20 years for the light from a star to reach you It takes 20 years for the light from a star to reach you. How far away is the star?
What is 20 light years?
It takes the light from a star 24 months to reach you It takes the light from a star 24 months to reach you. How far away is the star?
What is 2 light years?
Name for a meteoroid that reaches earth’s surface.
What is a meteorite?
A dirty snowball or a large rock with a tail
What is a comet?
A meteoroid that enters the earth’s atmosphere is called
What is a meteor?
Name the large rocks that orbit the sun b/w Mars and Jupiter
What are asteroids?
Name the cloud of gas that surrounds the nucleus of a comet.
What is the coma?
This planet looks like Earth’s moon.
What is Mercury?
This planet has the most visible rings of the outer planets.
What is Saturn?
The study of the universe.
What is astronomy?
Name the inner planets that have moons.
What are earth and Mars?
Name the outer planets that have rings.
What is all of them?