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chapter 23 vocabb
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| many small planet-like bodies revolving around the sun between the orbits of mars and jupiter | Astroids |
| a mass of a rock, ice, dust, and gas revolving around the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit | Comet |
| depessions on the surface of a moon or planet, usualy caused by the impact of a huge rock | Craters |
| the ability of earths atmosphere to absorb long heat waves from Earth after allowing the Sun's short waves to pass through it | Greenhouse effect |
| the four planets nearest the Sun, separated from the outer planets by the astroid belt | inner planets |
| gasous planets that are much larger and less dense than terretrial planets | jovian planets |
| a light produced when a meteorite streaks throughs Earh's atmosphere | meteor |
| the part of the meteorite streaks through earth's surface | mertorite |
| a rock fragment traveling in space | meteoroid |
| a time when many meteroids enter earths atmosphere | meteor shower |
| a smaller body revolving around a larger body; a natural satllite is also called a moon | satellite |
| another mane for the inner planets; they have a rocky crust a dense mantle layer, and very dense core | terrestrial planets |
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