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The outer planets are separated from the inner planets by the ____
Asteroid belt
The planets Jupiter Saturn ____ Neptune and Pluto are the outer planets
Uranus
All of the outer planets except ____ have small solid cores surrounded by a liquid then a thick gaseous atmosphere
Pluto
Jupiter is the ___ planet
Largest
Jupiter has more ___ than all the other planets combined
Mass
Observations of Jupiter show that the _______ ranges from about one to three earths in diameter
Great Red Spot
The second largest planet is ____
Saturn
Saturn has seven major ____ which contain some water
Rings
Uranus is the ____ planet from the sun
Seventh
The blue green color of Uranus is caused by ____ in the atmosphere
Methane
The tilt of its axis causes summer at the North Pole of Uranus to last for _______
21 years
Neptune has the strongest ____
Winds
Neptunes moon triton is ____ than Pluto
Larger
The smallest planet is ___
Pluto
A comet is a ball of ___ and rock that orbits the sun
Ice
The orbit of Haley’s comet brings it past earth every _____
76 years
Pressure from the sunlight drives clouds of material away from a comets nucleus forming a ____
Tail
Small asteroids are often called ___
Meteoroids
A meteoroid that reaches earths surface is a ___
Meteorite
A meteoroid that enters earths atmosphere and begins to burn is called a ___
Meteor
The largest satellite in the solar system is ___
Ganymede
The spacecraft voyager detected nine ___ on the Galilean satellite Io
eruptions
Because Europa may have an ___ scientists wonder is life may be present there
Ocean
