8.1 What Are the Planets in Our Solar System?

How many focus points on an ellipse?

• 4

• 5

• 2

• 1

When a planet is the point farthest away from the sun?

• seasonal side

• perihelion

• minor axis

• aphelion

Which fact is false about Jupiter?

• the 5th planet from the sun

• striped/ band appearance

• a moon called Callieway

• it has a big red spot

Venus' rotation goes in the opposite way as earth. What is it called?

• opposite retro

• retrograde

• grader slope decline

• rotation a la mode

A flattened circle is called an ___________.

Who found 3 very important laws on planetary motion?

• Galileo

• Einstein

• Keppy

• Kepler

The 7th planet away from the sun is...

• Uranus

• Saturn

• Earth

• Mars

Check all that apply facts that are true about Mars.

• it is called the "red planet"

• it has the smallest volcano in the solar system

• it has ice caps

• it has 2 moons: Pho and Doa

The perfect planet to sustain humans is called ________.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Saturn is how many AU away from the sun?

• 9.53

• 2.5

• 0.38

• 30.06

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3