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Area of the sun where nuclear fusion occurs.

What is the core?

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The 3 characteristics that inner planets all have in common.

What are small, dense, and rocky surfaces?

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The four outer planets known

as gas giants.

What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?

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Comets are found in two distinct regions.

What are the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud?

2,1

Copernicus was able to confirm thismodel and work out the arrangementof the planets and how the moved.

What is the heliocentric system?

2,2

Unique in having liquid water at its surface.

What is Earth?

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One of Jupiter’s moons that may have liquid water.

What is Europa?

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Revolves around the sun betweenthe orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

What is the asteroid belt?

3,1

The outer most layer of the sun’s interior.

What is the convection zone?

3,2

Smallest terrestrial planet and closet to the sun.

What is Mercury?

3,3

Titan is the largest moon of this planet.

What is Saturn?

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When a meteroid enters Earth’s atmosphere,friction with the air creates heat and produces

a streak of light.

What is a meteor?

4,1

The 3 layers of the sun’s atmosphere.

What are the photosphere, chromosphere, and corona?

4,2

Density and intenal structureis similar to Earth’s. Sometimes

called “Earth’s twin”.

What is Venus?

4,3

Unique to Uranus’s axis of rotation.

What is 90 degrees from the vertical?

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The “Goldilocks” Conditionsfor living things to survive.

What are liquid water, suitable temperature ranges, and atmosphere?

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Occur near Earth’s poles when particles of solar wind strike gas

molecules in Earth’s upper atmosphere.

What are auroras?

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Reason that Mars has a reddish color.

What is iron-rich rock?

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Neptune was discovered due to this prediction.

What is a mathematical prediction?

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Made up of one or more cells, take inenergy to grow and develop, reproduce,

and give off waste products.

What are living things on Earth?