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| Nicknamed the "red planet" |
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| Largest planet in the solar system |
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| Has the hottest surface temperature because of its thick atmosphere |
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| 70% of it is covered with water |
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| Other than Earth, what planet has ice caps |
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| Its axis of rotation is tilted on its side |
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| Titan is one of its moons |
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| Has the largest moon in the solar system |
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| Has the largest volcano in the solar system |
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| Farthest planet from the Sun |
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| Closest planet to the Sun |
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| Blue color of these two planets due to methane gas |
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| Having the Sun as the center (proposed by Copernicus) |
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| Having the Earth as the center |
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| Who lived earlier Copernicus or Galileo |
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| Who was on house arrest for his views on the solar system Galileo or Copernicus |
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| Who didn't share his views on the solar system until on his deathbed Galileo or Copernicus |
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Used to the 9th planet
- has one moon |
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| Parts of comets or asteroids, float arround in space |
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"shooting star"
- meteoroid that burns up entering atmosphere |
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Meteoroid that hits planet surface
- big ones make craters |
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| Planets and objects that orbit the Sun |
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| Space objects composed of rock particles, frozen water, methane, ammonia |
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Most famous comet
- seen every 76 years |
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| A cloud of billions of comets surrounding the Solar System |
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| A piece of rock that is the same material that formed the planets |
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| Located between Mars and Jupiter |
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| Cloud surrounding the comet's necleus |
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| Trail of the comet's fragments |
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| Large cloud of gas and dust that contracts under gravitational force and breaks apart into smaller pieces, each of which collapse to form a star |
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| Who said that planets travel in orbits? |
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| Who said that planets travel at different speeds and travel in elliptical orbits |
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