Solar System Review

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Solar System
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Solar System Review

• The Planets
• Other Objects in Space

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A large object that moves around a star.

• What is a planet?

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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

• What are the inner planets?

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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune Pluto

• What are the outer planets?

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Burning sphere of gases

• What is a star?

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Imaginary line that Earth rotates around

• What is an axis?

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Instrument used to observe a distant object

• What is a telescope?

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Path an object takes when revolving around
another object

• What is an orbit?

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Movement of Earth around the sun

• What is revolution?

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Spinning movement of the Earth

• What is rotation?

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Small mass of ice and dust that orbits the sun

• What is a comet?

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Name for the outer planets, except for Pluto

• What are the gas giants?

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An object that moves around another object

• What is a satellite?

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Vehicle sent to explore space

• What is a space probe?

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Objects in a belt between Mars Jupiter

• What is an asteroid?

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Changes in the apparent shape of the moon

• What are phases?