Solar System

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What is the Sun?

Back

It is a Star.

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What is the correct order of the planets in the Solar System, starting closest to the Sun?

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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

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What is the force of attraction between any two objects called?

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Gravity.

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What is the object that all planets in our solar system orbit?

Back

The Sun.

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Which planet is the largest planet in the solar system and is the fifth planet?

Back

Jupiter.

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What is a planet?

Back

A celestial body that orbits a star, is spherical in shape, and has cleared its orbit of other debris.

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What is an asteroid?

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A small rocky body that orbits the Sun, primarily found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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What is a comet?

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A celestial object made of ice, dust, and rocky material that, when close to the Sun, displays a visible atmosphere and sometimes a tail.

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What is the Milky Way?

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The galaxy that contains our Solar System, consisting of billions of stars, including the Sun.

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What is a satellite?

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A celestial body that orbits a planet, such as the Moon orbiting Earth.