S5 Earth Space Week 8 Explore Our Solar System

Question 1

10. Huge explosions can often be seen on the sun called ___________

Accepted Answer

solar flares

Question 2

3._____ is the sixth planet and giant rings made of ice chunks, dust, and rock; it is gaseous.

Accepted Answer

Saturn

Question 3

1. Everything in the solar system revolves around the ___________.

Accepted Answer

sun

Question 4

14. Earth is the _____ planet from the sun.

Accepted Answer

third

Question 5

13. The word __________ means sun.

Accepted Answer

solar

Question 6

8. Surrounding the sun is the __________.

Accepted Answer

chromosphere

Question 7

20. _____ are chunks of dirt and ice with a nucleus and a large shining ________.

Accepted Answer

comet, tail

Question 8

7. Energy shoots from the core of the sun to the surface called the ______.

Accepted Answer

photosphere

Question 9

16. ______ is the largest planet, and is believed to have a liquid core.

Accepted Answer

Jupiter

Question 10

2. The system of planets, moons, and asteroids revolving around the sun is called the _______.

Accepted Answer

solar system

Question 11

18. ________ the eighth planet, and is farthest from the sun when Pluto is inside its orbit.

Accepted Answer

Neptune

Question 12

21. ________ is the second planet and is called our sister planet, it is much like Earth.

Accepted Answer

Venus

Question 13

19. The ________ is Earth’s only natural satellite.

Accepted Answer

moon

Question 14

9. Above the chromosphere is the __________.

Accepted Answer

corona

Question 15

22. _________ are believed to be leftover rocky chunks from the formation of the solar system.

Accepted Answer

asteroids

Question 16

17. _________ is the seventh planet, is blue-green

Accepted Answer

Uranus

Question 17

23. __________ are pieces of space stuff that hit the Earth’s atmosphere.

Accepted Answer

meteors

Question 18

4. Our solar system is part of an even larger system called the _________.

Accepted Answer

Milky Way

Question 19

6. Dwarf planets are ______-between Mars, Jupiter, and ______- farther from sun than Pluto.

Accepted Answer

Ceres, Eris

Question 20

5. _______ was classified to a dwarf planet in 2006 much like the two other dwarf planets.

Accepted Answer

Pluto

Question 21

15. _________, the fourth planet is called the _________, and has polar ice caps like Earth.

Accepted Answer

Mars, red planet

Question 22

12. Mercury has no _______________.

Accepted Answer

atmosphere

Question 23

11. ________ is the planet closest to the sun and is small, rocky and craters like our moon.

Accepted Answer

Mercury

S5 Earth Space Week 8 Explore Our Solar System

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S5 Earth Space Week 8 Explore Our Solar System

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