vocabulary

Question 1

Jupiter

Answer 1

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun and the largest in

the Solar System. It has a mass one thousandth than the sun.

Question 2

Saturn

Answer 2

Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second largest in the Solar System. It has an average radius of about nine times than earth.

Question 3

Uranus

Answer 3

Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun. It has the third largest planetary radius and fourth largest planetary mass in the Solar System.

Question 4

Neptune

Answer 4

Neptune is the eighth and farthest known Solar planet from the sun. In the Solar System, it is the forth largest
planet by diameter and the third most massive planet.

Question 5

Dwarf planet

Answer 5

A dwarf planet resembles a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are required for it to be a p
classed as one.

Question 6

Comet

Answer 6

A comet is an icy, when passing close to the sun it begins to warm, which it starts to release gasses, a process called outgassing.

Question 7

Asteroid

Answer 7

Asteroids are rocky worlds revolving around the sun that are too small to be called planets. The mass of all asteroids is less than that of Earth’s moon.

Question 8

Meteoroid

Answer 8

A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. If a meteoroid enters the Earth’s atmosphere it vaporizes and is often called a shooting star.

Question 9

Sedna

Answer 9

Sedna is a large planetoid in the outer reaches of the Solar System that is at a distance of 85 astronomical units from the Sun, about three times farther than Neptune

Question 10

Extra Terrestrial life

Answer 10

Extraterrestrial life, life that may exist or may have existed in the universe outside of Earth.