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3. Direction of almost all the planets and
moons in our solar system. The opposite
direction of a clock.
7. The farthest planet from the sun is blue
and had a great dark spot on its surface
that vanished.
9. The biggest object in our solar system.
All the planets orbit around it.
11. the Jovian, outer planets, are made of
_____ not rock
12. To go around another object. The
planets ____ around the sun. This
movement is what creates years. It take
the Earth 365 1/4 days to do this.
15. To spin around on an axis. This
motion creates a day. It takes the Earth
24 hours to ______ once.
16. The 5th planet from the sun is the
largest of the planets. This planet has a
storm called the Great Red Spot that is
2-3 times larger than Earth.
18. just beyond the orbit of Mars is a belt
of small bodies called _______ .
19. This planet has a density less than
water, thus it would float in water. Has
the most visible ring system.
1. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and
Pluto (it is now considered
a dwarf planet)
2. There are 3 revolving around terrestrial
(inner) planets. A difference between this
and a planet is that a planet goes around
the sun and these go around planets.
4. the four nearest planets to the sun are
referred to as the ________ ________
5. the inner planets are sometimes called
the _____ (earth-like) planets because they
all have rocky crusts and very dense
cores
6. Is the closest to the sun, has the
shortest orbit, is the smallest terrestrial
planet, heavily cratered making look like
Earth’s moon, rotates slowly (59 days).
Really hot during the day and really cold
at night. Has no moons.
8. There are 8 in our solar system. They
revolve around the sun.
10. The 7th planet from the sun
is tipped on its side and rotates backward.
13. Has been called Earth’s sister planet,
because it is the nearest planet to Earth
and is the same size as Earth. Rotates
backwards, the sun rises in the west. A
day on this planet is longer than a year.
Has a yellow atmosphere. Most of its
atmosphere is carbon dioxide. Due to the
Greenhouse Effect, it is the hottest
planet. Has no moons.
14. The Red Planet. Has polar ice caps.
Olympus Mons is the largest know
volcano. Is the only inner planet with 2
moons. Water seems to have created
many of its surface features.
16. Jupiter-like (large, made of gas, less
dense, and all have ring systems)
17. The third planet from the sun. Has
one moon. Has water on it (solid, liquid,
and gas). Is known as the Blue Planet.
ASTEROIDS
COUNTERCLOCKWISE
EARTH
GAS
INNERPLANETS
JOVIAN
JUPITER
MARS
MERCURY
MOON
NEPTUNE
OUTERPLANETS
PLANET
REVOLVE
ROTATE
SATURN
SUN
TERRESTRIAL
URANUS
VENUS