Solar System Flashcards

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Name the planets on the solar system

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

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What is an inner planet?

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They’re the planets closest to the Sun and mostly made of rock.

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What is an outer planet?

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They’re the ones furthests from the Sun and are large balls of gasses.

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What is a planet?

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A large object that revolves around a star.

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What are stars composed of?

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The colors of the stars are produced by sodium chloride, rubidium chloride, and copper sulfate.

Basically the composition of the light colors of stars is produced by how hot the gas object would be.

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Why do we only see one side of the moon?

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It has “synchronous rotation”, meaning that they synchronize while rotating. So the moon and the Earth rotate at the same time, they’re synchronized.

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