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Chaper 21
Vocab Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Asteroid | Millions of rocky small objects that orbit the Sun in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter |
| Comet | Is made of gas, dust, ice and moves around the sun in an oval-shaped orbit |
| Astronomical Unit | The avarage distance from Earth to the Sun-about 150 million km |
| Period of revolution | The time it takes an object to travel once around the Sun |
| Peroid of rotation | The time it takes an object to complete one rotation |
| Terrestial planet | The planets closed to the Sun, are made ofn rock and metal, and have solid outer layers |
| Greenhouse effect | Occurs when a planet´s atmosphere traps solar energy and causes the surface temperature to increase |
| Galilean moons | The four largest moons of Jupiter-lo, Europa, Ganymede, and Calliston-are know as |
| Meteroid | A small, rocky particle that moves through space |
| Meteor | A streak of light in Earth´s atmosphere made by a glowing meteroid |
| Meteorite | A meteroid that strikes a planet or a moon |
| Impact crater | A round depression formed on thesurface of a planet, moon, or other space object by the impact of a meteorite |