Solar System

Solar System

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Identify what a galaxy is

• a large group of planets

• A huge group of stars

• a large group of moons

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Identify the 4 inner planets

• Mercury

• Venus

• Earth

• Saturn

• Mars

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Identify how long it takes for a planet to rotate on it's axis

• the amount of time it takes to rotate around the moon

• amount of time that an object takes to rotate once. (1 Day)

• the amount of time it takes to rotate around the sun

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Identify what is true about Mercury

• closest to the sun

• has 12 moons

• Fastest orbiting planet

• one side of the planet is 800 degrees

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1 Earth rotation is equal to

• almost 24 hours

• 365 years

• 365 days

• almost 24 minutes

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1 Earth revolution around the sun is equal to

• almost 24 hours

• 365 years

• 365 days

• almost 24 minutes

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Mars is mostly made of ice and has a mountain 3 times taller than on earth

• True

• False

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Identify the outer planets

• Saturn

• Jupiter

• Mars

• Uranus

• Neptune

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The largest planet in the solar system with a large red spot bigger than earth is

• Saturn

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Uranus

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Saturn is the 2nd largest planet with rings that surround it

• True

• False

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Identify the definition of gravity

• A force that pulls all objects toward each other.

• The tendency of an object to stay either at rest or in motion along a straight path

• None of these

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A comet is a small body made out of dust, rock, gas & ice. They are kind of like a dirty snowball. Comets come from faraway regions of our solar system beyond the planets

• True

• False

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When large meteoroids enters Earth’s atmosphere, they usually burn up & make a fiery trail as it falls, it is then called a planet or a “shooting planet”

• True

• False