Formation of the Solar System
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| show | space object built of solid paricles that can form planets through collisions and mergers
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| show | a planets apparent backward movement in the sky
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| ellipse | show 🗑
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| astronomical unit | show 🗑
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| eccentricity | show 🗑
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| show | one of the rocky surfacedrelatively small, denser inner planets closet to the sun- Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
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| scarps | show 🗑
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| show | large, gaseous planet that is very cold at is surface; has ring systems, many moons, lacks a solid surfaces- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
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| show | fomr of hydrogen with both liquid and metallic properties that exists as a layer in the jovian atmosphere
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| show | low, warm, dark colored cloud that sinks and flows rapidly in the Jovian atmosphere
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| zones | show 🗑
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| show | and object that, due to its own gravity, is spherical in shape, orbits the sun, is not a satellite, and has not cleared the area of its orbit of smaller debris
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| meteoroid | show 🗑
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| show | streak of light produced when a meteriod falls toward earth and burns up in the earths atmosphere
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| show | a small fragment of an orbiting body that has fallen to earth, generating heat; does not completely burn up in the Earth'satmosphere and strikes the Earth's surface, sometimes causing an impact crater
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| Kuiper belt | show 🗑
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| show | occurs when earth intersects a cometary orbit and comet particles burn up as they enter Earth's upper atmosphere
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