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Solar system
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Astronomical unit | Used to measure far distances in space 1au=distance from earth to sun |
| Meteoroid | Chunks of rock smaller then asteroid |
| Meteor | Streak of light. |
| Meteorite | Space rock found on earth |
| Asteroid | Millions of small rocky objects that orbit the Sun in asteroid belt |
| Comet | Made of gas dust and ice revole around the sun in the Kepler belt and the Oort Cloud |
| Inner planets | Terrestrial solid Rickey mercury Venus earth mars |
| Outer planets | Gas giants made of ice and gas Jupiter Uranus Neptune Saturn rings moons hydrogen and helium |
| Mercury | Closet to sun, not the hottest, so small it lacks gravity and atmosphere |
| Venus | Hottest planet, greenhouse effect, Day is longer them yea,-rotation time longer then revolution, acid clouds. |
| Earth | Only planet with life, moderate temperature, protective atmosphere, liquid water |
| Mars | Largest known mountain-Olympus Mons, possible signs of life |
| Terrestrial planet | Four inner planets |
| Greenhouse effect | Occurs when a planets atmosphere traps solar energy and causes the temp to increase |
| Jupiter | Largest planet Galilean moons Great Red Spot |
| Saturn | Most complex ring system least dense planet, would float home of titan a moon |
| Uranus | Rotation axis tilted 90 degrees so rotates like a bowling ball |
| Neptune | Longest period of revolution swirling storms windiest planet |
| Gas giants | Jupiter Saturn Uranus neptune |
| Galileo moons | 4 moons Galileo discovered around Jupiter Io Europa Ganymede Callisto |
| Dawrf planet | Pluto is first same as planet but not larger then neighbors ceres is in asteroid belt |