Solar System

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What is the center of our solar system?

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The Sun.

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What is the region between Mars and Jupiter that contains thousands of rocky objects?

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Asteroid belt.

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What is the region of small bodies that exists outside the orbit of the planets, consisting of ices?

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Kuiper belt.

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What do we call scientists who study the solar system and outer space?

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Astronomers.

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True or False: All rotation and revolution lengths are the same for each planet.

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False.

Front

What is the largest planet in our solar system?

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Jupiter.

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What is the term for a small body of ice and dust that, when close to the Sun, develops a tail?

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Comet.

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What is the name of the fourth planet from the Sun?

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Mars.

Front

What is the term for a celestial body that orbits a planet?

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Moon.

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What is the name of the fifth planet from the Sun?

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Jupiter.