Introducing the Solar System | The Sun | The Inner Planets | The Outer Planets | Small Solar System Object |
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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
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What is a huge, reddish loop of gas that protrudes from the sun’s surface, linking parts of sunspot regions.
Prominence
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What is a planet that is composed primarily of silicate rocks or metals.
Terrestrial planet
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What is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
Jupiter
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What is a spherical region of comets that surrounds the solar system
Oort cloud
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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
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What is a spot or patch appearing from time to time on the sun's surface, appearing dark by contrast with its surroundings.
Sunspot
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What is the trapping of heat near a planets surface by certain gases in the plants atmosphere.
Greenhouse effect
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What is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
Saturn
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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
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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
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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
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What is the smallest planet in the Solar System and the closest to the Sun.
Mercury
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What is the name often given to the outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
Gas giant
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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
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What is in orbit around the Sun.
Planet
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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
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What is the second planet from the Sun. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.
Venus
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What is the eighth and farthest-known Solar planet from the Sun.
Neptune
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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
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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
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What is a part of the body resembling or likened to a crown.
Corona
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What is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, being larger than only Mercury.
Mars
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What is a thin disk of small ice and rock particles
Ring
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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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