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The center of our solar system is the....
Earth
Sun
Moon
Asteroid belt
There are _________ planets in our solar system.
6
7
8
9
The closest four planets are called the ________ planets.
inner
outer
The furthest four planets are called the _______ planets.
inner
outer
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are known as _____________ planets.
rocky
gaseous
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are know as ________ planets.
rocky
gaseous
The gaseous planets are much larger than the rocky planets.
True
False
___________ are similar to planets but are not large enough to have cleared their orbital region of other objects.
dwarf planets
comets
asteroid belt
Kuiper Belt
Oort cloud
___________ are objects made of ice, dust, and rocks that orbit the Sun.
dwarf planets
comets
Asteroid belt
Kuiper belt
Oort Cloud
The _________ is a region between the planets Mars and Jupiter containing thousands of rocky objects that orbit the Sun.
dwarf planets
comets
Asteroid belt
Kuiper belt
Oort cloud
The ___________ is a region of thousands of small bodies that exists outside the orbit of the planets. Objects in this area consist of "ices" such as ammonia, water, and methane.
dwarf planets
comets
Asteroid belt
Kuiper belt
Oort cloud
The _______ exists much further out than the Kuiper belt and is at the very edge of the Solar System. Scientists believe it is made up of thousands of small ice objects.
dwarf planets
comets
Asteroid belt
Kuiper belt
Oort Cloud
Our solar system is part of a bigger grouping of stars called the ___________ galaxy.
Milky Way
Andromeda
Messier 63
Whirlpool
Sombrero
___________ was once considered a full planet but was redefined as a dwarf planet in 2006.
Pluto
Mars
Ceres
MakeMake
About 99.85% of the mass of the solar system is the __________.
Asteroid belt
Sun
Moon
planets
Scientists who study the solar system and outer space are called ______________.
astronomers
astronauts
Scientists estimate that there are around ________ stars in our galaxy.
200
200 thousand
200 million
200 billion
200 trillion
The inner and outer planets are separated by the __________.
asteroid belt
moon
comets
dwarf planets
Each planet orbits or ______ around the Sun.
rotates
revolves
All rotation and revolution lengths are the same for each planet.
true
false
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