Final Review #3 (N8-13)

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What shape do planets, moons, and other bodies have in their orbits around another object?

Back

Oval

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What are the terrestrial planets in our solar system?

Back

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

Front

Have humans walked on the moon? (True or False)

Back

True

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What is the best label for rocky objects that are thought to be leftover pieces from the formation of the solar system?

Back

Asteroid Belt

Front

What does it mean that the moon rotates and revolves around the Sun every 27.3 days?

Back

We always see the same side of the Moon from the Earth.

Front

What are the gas-ice giants in our solar system?

Back

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

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What is the difference between rotation and revolution?

Back

Rotation is the spinning of an object on its axis, while revolution is the movement of an object around another object.

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What is an exoplanet?

Back

A planet that orbits a star outside our solar system.

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What is the Kuiper Belt?

Back

A region of the solar system beyond Neptune that contains many small icy bodies.

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What is the significance of the asteroid belt?

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It contains rocky remnants from the early solar system and separates the terrestrial planets from the gas giants.