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This is the last planet in the solar system.
Neptune
Pluto
Ceres
Uranus
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The smallest planet, and closest to the sun is :
Mars
Venus
Mercury
Pluto
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This is the only planet which has free oxygen and water.
Mercury
Mars
Earth
Jupiter
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This planet is home to the tallest mountain, and deepest canyon in the solar system.
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Earth
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Our star is orbited by _______ "planets".
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10
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8
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Everything in time and space is called:
a solar system
the universe
a black hole
a galaxy
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These are "cool " places on the sun.
corona
solar prominences
solar flares
sunspots
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This is the largest planet in the solar system.
Zeus
Uranus
Saturn
Jupiter
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Between Mars and Jupiter there is:
The Asteroid Belt
another planet
the Van Allen Belt
The Kuiper Belt
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A large rock which orbits the sun in very long and lopsided orbits is
a shooting star
a comet
an asteroid
a meteor
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A group of planets and an associated star is called:
a galaxy
a solar system
a universe
an asteroid
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This planet is famous for having an "East Pole".
Saturn
Neptune
Mars
Uranus
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The hottest planet in the solar system is:
Mars
Earth
Venus
Mercury
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This planet is orbited by a smashed planet.
Uranus
Saturn
Jupiter
Neptune
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When the Earth is between the Moon and the Sun you get:
A solar corona
A lunar eclipse
A solar shadow
` A solar eclipse
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These are bursts of light and radiative energy from the sun.
eclipses
Solar flares
sunspots
solar prominences
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When the moon is between the Earth and the Sun you get:
an solar eclipse
a lunar eclipse
a comet
a shadow
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These are HUGE sheets or loops of gases that leap off the sun.
corona
Solar prominences
sun spots
Solar flares
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A number of loosely associated stars is called a
solar system
universe
galaxy
dimension