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The Question

• The path taken by an object around another object
  in space

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The Answer

• What is an orbit?

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The QuestionA scientist who studies the
universe
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• What is an astronomer?

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The Question

• A ball of gases which produces light and heat

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• What is a star?

The Sun is a medium-sized star!!
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The Questionthe gases that surround a planet
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What is the atmosphere?
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The Question

• an object in space that travels around a larger
  object

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What is a satellite?
The moon is an example.
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The top layer of the earth . . .
Look right here!
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What is the crust?
Hey, we all know this one!!
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The Question
Mars is sometimes called __________
__________ ___________. This is because the sand
and rocks on its surface are reddish in color.
Remember the polar ice caps?
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The Answer What is the Red Planet?
What is this?
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Planets spin as they orbit the sun on an
imaginary line called an axis. This line runs
from the top to the bottom through the planet.
The top end of the planet is called the ________
______ and the bottom end is called the is called
the ___________ _____________.
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The Answer
North Pole South Pole
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The ________ is the center of our solar system.
The Suns _________, or pull, holds nine planets
in place.
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The Answer
sun gravity
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Almost 75 or ¾ of the Earths land is _______
________. (Two words!!)
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under water
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The planets in our solar system __________, or
moves, around the sun. When a planet starts at
one place, goes all the way around the sun and
ends up at the same place, it has completed one
______________.
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revolve revolution
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The Answer Craters are caused by
__________________________________________________
______. These are pieces of rock or metal that
fly through space sometimes hitting a planet or
moon.
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meteorites hitting the planets
crater
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The Question ______________ is the largest
planet in our solar system. In fact, only our
Sun is larger.
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The Answer
Jupiter
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The Question
Each planet in our solar system ____________, or
spins, around a line through its center. This
imaginary line is called an _______.
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The Answer
What is rotates? What is an axis?
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The Question Label the layers of the Earth
below
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The Answer
outer core
inner core
mantle
crust
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The Question Explain why Uranus and Neptune look
blue-green in photos.
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The Answer What is they both have methane gas in
their atmospheres?
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The Question Explain why Mercury has been hit by
so many craters.
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The Answer What is . . . Mercury has been hit by
numerous meteorites because there is no air mass,
or atmosphere, to stop the meteorites from
hitting its surface?
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The Question Venus is the hottest planet in our
solar system but it is not the closest to the
Sun. Explain why this is so.
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The Answer What is . . . Venus is the hottest
planet in our solar system because its clouds are
made of carbon dioxide which traps the Suns heat
within the planets atmosphere?
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The Question Planets take different lengths of
time to revolve around the Sun. Explain why this
happens.
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The Answer What is . . . The planets take
different lengths of time to revolve around the
Sun because they are at different distances from
the Sun?
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The Question The reason the moon appears to
shine at nighttime . . .
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The Answer What is . . . The moon is not a
source of light. It appears to shine at night
because it is reflecting the Suns light.
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The Question Our Suns gravity holds planets
millions of miles away in place within our solar
system. Tell why this is possible.
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The Answer What is . . . The secret is its huge
size compared to that of all the planets. The
suns gravitational pull is extremely strong
because the larger the object ins space, the
stronger its pull of gravity?
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The Bonus Question Pluto is sometimes the eighth
planet in our solar system. However, at other
times it is the ninth planet. Explain how this
happens.
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The Answer What is . . . Pluto is sometimes the
eighth planet and at other times is the ninth
planet in our solar system because its orbit
crosses in front of Neptunes orbit. This is due
to its stretched-out elliptical orbit.
Pluto
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Another Bonus Question Uranus does not spin like
the other planets in our solar system. Why is
this so?
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The Answer What is . . . Uranus does not spin
like the other planets in our solar system
because its axis is tipped over and as a result
it appears to be lying down. Uranus was hit by a
large object and knocked over on its side?
Uranus
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The Question Just an Extra Venus rotation is
different from that of Earths. Explain the
reason for this.
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The Answer What is Venus rotation is
different from that of Earths because it spins
in the opposite direction. For example, on Earth
the sun rises in the east and sets in the west
but on Venus the opposite is true. On Venus, the
sun rises in the west and sets in the east?
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Just One More Question Name the Gas Giants.
Big Hint!!
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This is the Final Answer What are . . . Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune? These planets do not
have a solid surface. They only have an
atmosphere made of gases and hard inner cores.
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