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What group of planets does the Earth belong?
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| How are the inner planets different from the outer planets? |
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| They are closer together. |
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| Why is Venus sometimes called Earth's twin? |
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| Venus rotates the same direction. |
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| What makes life possible on Earth? |
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| Liquid water on the surface |
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| What is unusual about Pluto's moon? |
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| It is more than half the size of Pluto. |
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| What is the largest planet in our solar system? |
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| What evidence is there about our moon's origin(where it came from)? |
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| Lunar rockas are similar to the Earth's mantle. |
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| What causes teh phases of the moon? |
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| The relative positions of the moon, Earth, and the sun. |
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| What is the main difference tween an asteroid and a meteoroid? |
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| Why are the inner planets called terrestrial planets? |
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| They are made of dense rock. |
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| What is the most useful unit for measuring distances in the solar system? |
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| What is one way the gas giants differe(are different) from terrestrial planets? |
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| They are made mainly of gas. |
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| Tides are mainly cause by? |
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| Differences in the gravitational pull. |
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| Earth has seasons because... |
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| The Earth's axis is tilted as it moves around the sun. |
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| The phase of the moon you see depends on... |
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| Where you are on Earth's surface. |
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| When the north end of the Earth's axis is tilted toward teh sun, North America will experience.... |
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| more direct rays and longer days. |
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| In what layer of the sun is energy produced? |
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| The planets of the solar system formed.... |
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| Planetesimals collided into one another. |
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| Earth's period of revolution is about... |
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| What bodies collide and combine to form Earth? |
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| Each planet moves around its sun in the shape of a ... |
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| The gravitational attraction between two objects decreases if.... |
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| The gravitational attraction between two objects increases if .... |
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| If the distance between them increases. |
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| What caused the solar system to form? |
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| Collapse of the solar nebula. |
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| After the solar nebula collapsed, its center became very hot and.... |
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| Venus if how many planets from the sun? |
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| How many planets is Saturn from the sun? |
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The asteroid belt is between which two planets?
How many planets is Mars and Jupiter from the sun? |
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Mars and Jupiter
4th and 5th |
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| Small, rocky bodies that revolve around the sun are? |
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| Smaller than Asteroids and are small, rocky bodies that revolve around the sun are? |
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| Meteoroid that hits the Earth's ground is a? |
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| Small body of ice, rock, and dust is a? |
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| When the moon is >>>>>, the sunlit fraction we can see is getting larger. |
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| When the shadow of one celestial body falls on another it is an... |
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