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What 2 planets can be found between the asteroid belt?
Mars and Jupiter
Earth and Mars
Jupiter and Saturn
Saturn and Uranus
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What word means a rotating cloud gas and dust from the Earth's solar system formed?
Solar nebula
Solar eclipse
astronomical explosion
Supernova
3
What planet has volcanic regions that may still be alive?
Pluto
Mercury
Mars
Saturn
4
What exists in the solar nebula that has about 99% of all matter?
asteroids
space
the sun
planets
5
What is a Neptune's Great Dark Spot
Vast ocean
Giant storm
Area that never faces the sun
Giant canyon
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what means small bodies from which planets originated during the early formation?
protoplanets
comets
asteroids
planetesimals
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What is the impact craters caused by?
Atmospheric changes
collisions with objects
exploding volcanoes
Solar bursts
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Which planet is similar to Uranus in term of its size and mass?
Pluto
Neptune
Jupiter
Saturn
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Who believed that planets mover in epicycles as they revolved in larger circles around Earth?
Copernicus
Newton
Ptolemy
Aristotle
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What 2 inner planets have almost the same size, mass, and density?
Mercury and Venus
Mars and Mercury
Venus and Earth
Earth and Mars
11
What planet has seasons like Earth?
Mercury
Pluto
Mars
Venus
12
What planet is a gas giant that has a distinctive blue green color?
Mercury
Uranus
Mars
Jupiter
13
What are the 2 inner planets that are alike in size, mass, and density?
Mercury and Venus
Earth and Mars
Mars and Mercury
Venus and Earth
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What planet did scientists not consider a major planet?
Saturn
Pluto
Neptune
Mercury
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What is Kepler's law of ellipses?
theory that the sun and planets condensed at the same time
small bodies from the planets originated in the solar system
Astronomer who believed that planets revolve around the sun
Planets that orbits the sun and is determined by two foci.
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Who proposed a heliocentric model of the universe, when the planets revolve at different speed?
Kepler
Galileo
Copernicus
Newton
17
What planet has the most complex ring system?
Neptune
Saturn
Jupiter
Uranus
18
What separates the outer planets from the inner planets?
the asteroid belt
the Kuiper belt
a large magnetic field
the Great Red Spot
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What law describes how a planet orbits the sun?
law of ellipses
law of equal areas
Law of orbital periods
law of period
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What is the smallest planet in the solar system, characterized by an unusually elongated orbit?
Mars
Neptune
Mercury
Pluto
