Inner Planets 1
Inner Planets 2
Asteroids and Comets
Solar system Hodge Podge
Sun
100
Has virtually no atmosphere because its mass is small and its gravity is weak
What is Mercury?
100
The largest volcano in the solar system located on Mars
What is olympus mons?
100
A comet's tail is made of a loose colletion of dust, rocy particles and this...
What is ice?
100
A streaks of light flashing across the night sky.
What is a meteor shower?
100
The sun's energy is produced here.
What is the core?
200
A planet other than earth, probably had a large amount of liquid water at one time.
What is Mars?
200
Because they are similar in size these are often refered to as twin planets.
What are Venus and Earth?
200
Forms when a comet approaches the sun and heats up some of its gas and dust stream outward
What is its tail?
200
A chunk of rock or dust in space that can come from asteroids or comets.
What is a meteoroid?
200
When hydrogen atoms join to gether to form helium.
What is nuclear fusion?
300
Has an atmosphere so thick that the weight of it can crush most space vehicles
What is venus?
300
Oddly enough, this inner planet rotates from east to west.
What is Venus?
300
Name given to the group of rocky objects located between Mars and Jupiter?
What are Asteroids?
300
When a meteroid enters Earth atmosphere is becomes this.
What is a meteor?
300
During a solar eclipse a faint layer of the sun called this becomes visible.
What is the corona?
400
A planet with craters on its surface, like the moon.
What is Mercury?
400
Two inner planets with moons.
What are Earth and Mars.
400
Name given to the collection of asteroids.
What is the asteroid belt.
400
A streak of light in the sky is caused by this event.
What is a metwor burning up in the atmosphere?
400
Some areas that are cooler than others on the surface of the sun.
What are sunspots?
500
Has ice caps made of carbon dioxide and liquid water.
What is mars?
500
Its atmosphere is more nitrogen than oxygen.
What is Earth?
500
Comets are most often found in one of the two distant regions of the solar system: the Kuiper belt and this place.
What is the Oort cloud?
500
When a meteor passes through the atmosphere an hits the Earth's surface it becomes a....
What is a meteorite?
500
Occurs near the earth's poles when particles of the solar wind strike gas molecules.
What is the auroras?
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