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The Solar System
Planets and Other Objects in the Solar System
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Science
9th Grade
11/03/2010

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What is the order of the planets in our solar system from the sun?
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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, (dwarf planet) Pluto
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Large Dirty snowballs that orbit the sun
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comets
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Shooting stars are....
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Meteors
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A piece of rock similar to that formed into the planets
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Asteroids
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After it hits Earth, a mereoroid is called a....
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Meteorite
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This planet is called Earth's twin
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Venus
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This is made of dust are rock particles mixed with frozen water, methane, and ammonia
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A Comet
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This planet shrunk in diameter
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Mercury
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Methane gives what its blue-green color?
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Neptune or Uranus
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The planet with the lowest density in our solar system
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Saturn
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A meteoroid that burns up in the Earth's atmosphere is called a...
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Meteorite
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What about water on Earth makes it different?
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It consists in all three forms: Liquid, solid, and gas
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This has moonlike phases and has the Greenhouse affect process on it
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Venus
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This is a spherical shell of asteroids
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The Oort Cloud
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What is an asteroid and where are most located?
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Small rocky bodies that orbit the sun, in the asteroid belt
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What space objects produce meteorites?
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Asteroids, planets, and comets
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