Vocab
What something is made of.
What is Composition?
The name often given to the 4 inner rocky planets.
What is Terrestrial?
No solid surface. The name we give to the four outer planets.
What is Gaseous (Gas Giants)?
Rocky objects that revolve around the sun.
What is an asteroid?
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us ________.
What is Nachos?
The gases surrounding the planets.
What is Atmosphere?
List the four inner planets in order.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars?
List the four outer planets in order.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
Cold mixture of dust and ice with a tail.
What is a Comet?
In order, list the solar system, universe, and galaxy by size from biggest to smallest.
What is Universe, Galaxy, Solar System?
An outer layer of something.
What is a surface?
Compared to the outer planets, describe the size of the four inner planets.
What is Smaller?
Describe the composition of the four outer planets.
What is thick, gaseous atmospheres, liquid interiors?
A natural object that revolves around another in space.
What are celestial bodies?
This keeps the planets in orbit around the sun.
What is Gravity?
The ratio of length in a drawing to the true length of an object.
What is Scale?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Describe the atmopheric and composition characteristics of the inner planets.
What is thin or no atmospheres, rocky solid surfaces?
Describe the atmospheric characteristics of the four outer planets.
What is thick atmospheres?
In 2006, this former planet was reduced to a dwarf planet.
What is Pluto?
Describe 3 things that Earth possesses that helps the planet sustain life.
What are water, oxygen, and the right temperature to live?
A representation of an object or process too hard to understand.
What is a model?
The inner planets and outer planets are separated by the ___________________.
What is the asteroid belt?
The nickname given to the Gas Giants.
What is Jovian?
Identify the difference between a meteor, a meteoroid, and a meteorite.
Meteor - piece of rock that burns up when passing through Earth's atmosphere
Meteoroid - a small body moving in the solar system that would become a meteor if it entered the earth's atmosphere
Meteorite - A meteor that strikes the surface
DAILY DOUBLE!
Describe scale factor and why we use it when talking about the planets and the solar system.
What is they use scale factor to see how far away the planets are from the sun and each other. We have to use models to represent the solar system because our solar system is gigantic. If we kept true to scale, Mercury would look like the point of a pen. Therefore we use a model to represent our planets but most are not true to scale.