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Solar system
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Astronomical unit | Used to measure far distances in space 1 AU =distance from earth to sun |
| Meteoroid | Piece of rock smaller than an asteroid |
| Meteor | Streak of light |
| Meteorite | Space rock found on earth |
| Asteroid | Millions of small rocky objects that orbit the sun in the asteroid belt between mars and Jupiter. |
| Comets | Made of gas dust ice revolve around the sun in the Kuiper Belt and Oort cloud |
| Inner planets | Terrestrial planets Sold and rocky Mercury Venus earth mars |
| Outer planets | Gas giants Made of gas and ice Jupiter astern u |
| Mercury | Closest planet to the sun NOT the hottest- so small it lacks gravity and atmosphere |
| Venus | Hottest planet Greenhouse effect Day is longer than a year-rotation time is longer than is revolution Acid cloud |
| Earth | Only planet with known life Moderate temperatures Protective atmosphere Liquid water |
| Mars | Largest known mountain-Olympus mons Possible signs of life |
| Terrestrial planets | The four inner planets |
| Greenhouse effect | Occurs when a planets atmosphere traps Solar energy and causes the temperature to increase |
| Jupiter | Largest planet Galilean moons The Great Red Spot |
| Saturn | Ring system Least dense planet it would float Home to titan-a moon |
| Uranus | Rotation tilted 90 degrees so it rotates like a bowling ball |
| Neptune | Longest period of revolution Swirling storms- windiest planet |
| Gas giants | Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune |
| Galilean moons | 4 moons Galileo discovered around Jupiter IO, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto |
| Dwarf planets | Pluto was first Same as planet but no larger than its neighbors Ceres in asteroid belt |