| A | B |
|---|
| jupiter | the largest planet |
| mars | the red planet |
| venus | the evening star |
| saturn | the famous ringed planet |
| mercury | the closest planet to the sun |
| pluto | it's surface temperature is 400 degrees below zero |
| uranus | king George's star |
| pluto | the furthest from the sun |
| neptune | its year has 60,000 days |
| revolve | travel around |
| orbit | the planets' paths around the sun |
| axis | the imaginary line |
| rotate | spin |
| Sally Ride | first U.S woman in space |
| what does mercury look like? | rocky, brown and has steep hills |
| how long is mercury? | 250 miles long |
| what is our sun? | a star |
| what is a star | a big ball of glowing gases |
| how far is the sun from earth? | 93 million miles |
| what are sally's interests | baseball, tennis, parents went to Europe, she has a collie dog and goes to space |
| how long does it take Mercury to revolve around the sun? | 88 days |
| what was Mercury named after | a messenger God |
| how long does it take the moon to orbit the earth | 1 month |
| how long does it take the arth to rotate once? | 24 hours |
| what are the surrondings of a planet or star called? | atmosphere |
| what are the inner planets made of? | rock |
| what are the outer planets made of? | gases |
| what are the names of the planets inorder starting from the sun? | Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Juptier, Saturn, Uranis, Neptune, Pluto |
| what is the largest memebr of the solar system? | the sun |
| do planets give off their own light? | no |
| do stars give off their own light? | yes |
| how long does it take the earth to orbit the sun? | 365 days |
| what planet has a lot of craters? | Mercury |
| what is the temperature of Mercury? | 750 to 275 degrees F |
| what are asteroids? | chunks of metal and rocks |
| what are comets | loose collections of rock and frozen gas |
| what is the center of our solar system? | the sun |
