Scavenger+Hunt

=Liliana Landsman, Christen Pedigo, and Diana Rojas = =4th grade solar system exercise! =  Read the direction carefully before beginning the assignment. Read each question then click the link below to search for your answer. The answers come straight from the link so make sure to search the site carefully to find the correct answer. = = =**Solar System Scavenger Hunt** =

=Sub-topic: PLANETS = 
 * **Question**: What shape is our solar system?
 * Source: http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/solar_system.html
 * **Question**: What are the four planets closest to the sun?
 * Source: http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system
 * **Question**: What are two characteristics of a dwarf planet?
 * Source http://solarsystem.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/index.cfm
 * **Question**: What is a revolution and how long does it take the Earth to make one revolutions around the sun?
 * Source: []

=Sub- topic: PLANETS' MOONS = = =
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Question**: What is the name of the beautiful moon that is littered with mountains, valleys, old volcano sites and bowl like holes (craters) that can be seen from earth without a telescope?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Source: []
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Question**: In May of 2002 Scott S. Sheppard and David C. Jewitt of the University of Hawaii announced the discovery of how many new moons around the planet?
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 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Question**: Why is Mar's moon Phobos a "doomed world"?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Source: []
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Question**: What is the order of Neptune's moons according to distance?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Source: []
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Question**: 2 parts- What is the largest Moon of Saturn, which is also the second largest moon in our solar system? AND which two planets is this moon larger than?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Source: []
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Question**: In what year were several of Uranus' 27 moons discovered?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Source: []

= = =<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sub-topic: ASTEROIDS, COMETS, METEORS =
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Question: What are asteroids, comets, and meteors made of?
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 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Question: Where can you find comets in the Solar System?
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 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Question: When was the first asteroid spotted? By whom?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|http://library.thinkquest.org/5014/#]
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Question: When do meteor showers occur?
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