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Solar system
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Astronomical unit | Used to measure far distance In space 1AU=Distance form earth to sun |
| Meteoroid | Chunks of rock smaller than asteroid. |
| Meteor | Streak of light |
| Meteorite | Space rock found on earth |
| Asteroids | Millions of smaller rock objects that orbit the Sunil the asteroid 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 Solid and rocky Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Rings and moons Venus earth Mars |
| Outer planets | |
| Mercury | Closest planet to the sun Not the hottest- so small it lacks gravity and atmosphere |
| Venus | Hottest planet Greenhouse affect Day is longer than a year rotation time is longer than it revolves Acid clouds |
| Earth | Only planet with known life's Moderate tempegures Protective atmosphere Liquid water |
| Mars | Largest k own mountain-Olympus mons Possible sights of life |
| Terrestrial planets | The four inner planets |
| Greenhouse effect | Occurs when a planets atmousphere traps solar energy and causes the temperature to increase. |
| Term | Description |
| 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 rotates like a bowling ball |
| Neptune | Longest period of revolution Swirling storms windiest planet |
| Gas giant | Nickname of 4 outer planets |
| Galilean moons | 4 moons Galileo discovered around Jupiter Io,Europa,Ganymede,callisto |
| Dwarf planet | Pluto was the first Same as planet but not loner than its neighbors Ceres is the asteroids belt. |