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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 | Chunk of rock smaller than asteroid |
| Meteor | Streak of light. |
| Meteorite | Space rock found on earth |
| Asteroids | Millions of rocky objects that orbit the sun in the steroid belt between mars and Jupiter |
| Comets | Made of gas dust and ice revolve around the sun in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. |
| Inner planets | Terrestrial planets Solid and rocky Mercury Venus earth mars |
| Outer planets | Gas giants Made of ice and gas Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Rings and moons Hydrogen and Helium |
| Planet | Spherical, orbits the sun, clears its orbit |
| Mercury | Closest planet to the sun NOT THE HOTTEST-so small it lacks gravity and atmosphere |
| Venus | Hottest planet Greenhouse effect Day is lonegr then a year revolution time is longer than it’s revolution Acid clouds |
| Earth | Only planet with known life Modern temperatures Protective atmosphere Liquid water |
| Mars | Largest known mountain Possible signs of life |
| Terrestrial planets | The four inner planets |
| Greenhouse effect | Ouccurs when a planet’s atmosphere traps solar energy and causss the temperature to increase |
| Jupiter | Largest planet, Galilean moons , Great Red Spot |
| Saturn | Most complex ring system, least dense planet- it would float, titan- largest moon |
| Uranus | Rotation axis is tilted 90 degrees so it rotates like a booking ball |
| Neptune | Longest period of revolution, swirling storms- windiest planet |
| Gas giants | Jupiter Saturn Neptune nickname for 4 outer planets |
| Galilean moons | 4 moons Galileo discovered around Jupiter - Io,Europa,Ganymede,Callisto |
| Dwarf planets | Pluto was the first Same as a planet but not larger than their neighbors Ceres in asteroid belt |