Solar System Review!

The Milky Way galaxy is a _________________.

Irregular galaxies have no real shape 

Neptune lies on it's side and has 42 years of darkness & 42 years of sunlight

This is the largest planet in our solar system

The solar system is approximately 

A _______________ has a frozen nucleus and can develop a glowing tail.

It takes the Earth _________ to revolve around the Sun.

Inner planets are large and gaseous

Mercury is covered with craters, just like our moon!

The gravitational pull of the Sun holds objects in the solar system in their orbits.

Solar means "energy"

The first stage in the formation of a star is a

Small rocky bodies found in a belt between Mars and Jupiter

Jupiter is one of the 4 outer planets

A star's brightness is called its

This is often called a "shooting star."

_______________ is the lightest (weight) planet in our solar system

The distance light travels in one year is called a ______________.

Mars is known as the _____________.

Jupiter is over 1,000 times the size of Earth

Venus is almost the same size of Earth and is the hottest planet in our solar system

All objects in the solar system travel around the sun in ______________.

The Sun and all of the bodies that revolve around it is called the __________________.

Neptune has the largest "storm" in our solar system called the ___________.

After the waning crescent, comes the New Moon

A huge system of stars, dust and gases in space

The Four Inner Planets in order are: