planet of the solar system

Question 1

solar system

Answer 1

the sun and all of the planets and other bodies that travel around it

Question 2

planet nebula

Answer 2

a celestial body that orbits the sun is round because of its own gravity and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbital path

Question 3

solar nebula

Answer 3

a rotating cloud of gas and dust from which the sun and the planets formed also any nebula from which stars and exoplanets may form

Question 4

planetesimal

Answer 4

a small body from which a planet originated in the early stages of development of the solar system

Question 5

eccentricity

Answer 5

the degree of elongation of an orbit

Question 6

inertia

Answer 6

the tendency of an object to resist a change in speed or direction until an outside force acts on the object

Question 7

terrestrial planet

Answer 7

one of the highly dense planets nearest to the sun mercury Venus mars and earth

Question 8

gas giant

Answer 8

a planet that has a deep massive atmosphere such as Jupiter Saturn Uranus or Neptune

Question 9

kuiper belt

Answer 9

a region of the solar system that starts just beyond the orbit of Neptune and that contains dwarf planets and other small bodies made mostly of ice

Question 10

orbit period

Answer 10

the time required for a body to complete a single orbit