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Astrology
Planets
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Environmental Studies
9th Grade
02/28/2008

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What are the four terrestrial planets?
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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
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What are the four jovian planets?
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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
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Define nebula.
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A cloud of gas and/or dust in space
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Which planet is known as the 'Red Planet'?
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Mars
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Which planet has the GREATEST temperature extremes?
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Mercury
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Which planet is known as the "Earth's Twin"?
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Venus
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Which planet has rings made of 'moonlets' of ice and rock?
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Saturn
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Which planet is a bluish planet?
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Neptune
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Which planet is the sideways planet?
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Uranus
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which planet has the moons Io, Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto?
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Jupiter
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About 80% of which planet's surface consists of plains covered by lava flows?
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Venus
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What is the name of Neptune's largest moon?
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Triton
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What is the name of Saturn's largest moon?
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Titan
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What 4 gases make up the atmospheres of the jovian planets?
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Hydrogen, helium, methane, ammonia
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A concentration of small celestial bodies in between Mars and Jupiter.
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Asteroid Belt
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The use of mathematics facilitated the discovery of this planet.
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Neptune
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This planet has many moons, including Titan, Dione, Tethys, and Mimas.
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Saturn
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The fastest moving planet in the solar system.
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Mercury
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The point in which the orbit of a planet or other body at which it comes closest to the sun.
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Perihelion
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Neptune
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[image]
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Mercury
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[image]
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Jupiter
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