3rd Solar System1

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What is the Solar System?

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The Sun and all of the bodies that revolve around it, including planets, moons, asteroids, and comets.

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What are the outer planets known as?

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Gas giants.

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What does the picture show?

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The relationship between the Sun, Moon, and Earth.

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What is an orbit?

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The path an object takes as it revolves around another object.

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What tool do you use to study distant objects like stars?

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Telescope.

Front

Name the closest star to Earth.

Back

The Sun.

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What are the four inner planets called?

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Terrestrial planets.

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What is a comet?

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A small body of ice, rock, and dust that orbits the Sun.

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What is a planet?

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A large body that orbits a star and does not produce its own light.

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What is the largest planet in our Solar System?

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Jupiter.