Introducing the Solar System The Sun The Inner Planets The Outer Planets Small Solar System Object
100
what is the collection of eight planets and their moons in orbit around the sun, together with smaller bodies in the form of asteroids, meteoroids, and comets
Solar system
100
What is a huge, reddish loop of gas that protrudes from the sun’s surface, linking parts of sunspot regions.
Prominence
100
What is a planet that is composed primarily of silicate rocks or metals.
Terrestrial planet
100
What is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
Jupiter
100
What is a spherical region of comets that surrounds the solar system
Oort cloud
200
What is a unit of measurement equal to 149.6 million kilometers, the mean distance from the center of the earth to the center of the sun.
Astronomical unit
200
What is a spot or patch appearing from time to time on the sun's surface, appearing dark by contrast with its surroundings.
Sunspot
200
What is the trapping of heat near a planets surface by certain gases in the plants atmosphere.
Greenhouse effect
200
What is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
Saturn
200
What is a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a “tail” of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun.
Comet
300
What is a celestial body resembling a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are required for it to be classed as such.
Dwarf planet
300
What is a reddish gaseous layer immediately above the photosphere of the sun or another star. Together with the corona, it constitutes the star's outer atmosphere.
Chromosphere
300
What is the smallest planet in the Solar System and the closest to the Sun.
Mercury
300
What is the name often given to the outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
Gas giant
300
What is a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune, believed to contain many comets, asteroids, and other small bodies made largely of ice.
Kuiper belt
400
What is in orbit around the Sun.
Planet
400
What is a nuclear reaction in which atomic nuclei of low atomic number fuse to form a heavier nucleus with the release of energy.
Nuclear fusion
400
What is the second planet from the Sun. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.
Venus
400
What is the eighth and farthest-known Solar planet from the Sun.
Neptune
400
What is a large oval organelle that contains the cells genetic material in the form of DNA and control many of the cell activities.
Nucleus
500
What is the locus of all points such that the sum of the distances from two foci to any point on the ellipse is a constant.
Ellipse
500
What is a part of the body resembling or likened to a crown.
Corona
500
What is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, being larger than only Mercury.
Mars
500
What is a thin disk of small ice and rock particles
Ring
500
What is the region of the solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, where many asteroids are found.
Asteroid belt






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