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Ch 6
The Solar System and Beyond
Question | Answer |
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What type of galaxy is the Milky Way? | spiral |
What is the name of our galaxy? | Milky Way |
What is the farthest planet from the Sun? | Neptune |
Which planet has a strong greenhouse effect? | Venus |
Which planet is red? | Mars |
Which planet is the largest? | Jupiter |
Which planet has the strongest winds? | Neptune |
What is the visible part of the Sun? | Photosphere |
What is the brightness of a star as you see it in the night sky? | apparent magnitude |
After the big bang, galaxies formed from what force? | gravity |
The apparent shift of an object's location when viewed from two positions is called? | parallax |
In an H-R diagram what is being compared? | magnitude and temperature |
What color are the hottest stars? | blue |
What is the theory that a an explosion happened in space to create the universe? | big bang |
What is a football-shaped galaxy with no spirals and very little dust? | elliptical |
What is a large group of stars held together by gravity called? | galaxy |
What is a number of stars that form a pattern called? | constellation |
What is an enormous cloud of gas and dust called? | nebula |
What is a star that explodes called? | supernova |
What is an object whose gravity is so strong that even light cannot escape? | black hole |
What is a large hot ball of gas held together by gravity that gives off its own light? | star |
What is a small asteroid called? | meteoroid |
What is a ball of rock and ice that orbits the Sun? | comet |
What is a meteoroid that enters Earth's atmosphere? | meteor |
What is any part of a meteoroid that reaches Earth's surface? | meteorite |
What is the Sun and all bodies traveling around it? | solar system |
What are large bodies orbiting a star? | planets |
What are rocky, metallic objects that orbit the Sun that are too small to be considered planets? | asteroids |
The path a planet or asteroid takes as it travels around the Sun? | orbit |
What is the planet that looks like it was knocked on its side? | Uranus |