What is the term used to determine that the Earth is the center of the solar system?
Geocentric.
Usually big balls of gas far away from the earth Ex. Sun.
Stars
Solar wind of the sun.
the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere
What is the green house effect.
a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year.
What is light years.
What is the term used to determine the sun is the center of the solar center.
Heliocentric.
When the atoms come together.
Nuclear fusion
areas that appear dark on the surface of the Sun.
Sun Spots
large planet composed mostly of gases, such as hydrogen and helium, with a relatively small rocky core
What is a Gas Giant.
The shape of the path that the planet takes
Ellipse.
When the nuclear atoms spread apart.
Nuclear Fission
the galaxy that contains our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth
Milky Way.
torus-shaped region in the Solar System, located roughly between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars
What is a Asteroid
torus-shaped region in the Solar System, located roughly between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars
What is asteroids.
The things in space that it is in our universe.
Solar System.
200 moons
Number of moons in the solar system
What is space and the solar system.
Universe
Everything in space.
What is solar system galaxy and universe.
a small body moving in the solar system that would become a meteor if it entered the earth's atmosphere.
What is Meteoroid.
Big balls of gas or stars that are in our solar system
Planets.
What is the outer atmosphere of the sun.
Corona of the Sun.
Venus, mars, Jupiter, Pluto.
Terrestrial planets.
A big rock that goes around certain plants like the ring plants and also hit earth.
Light Year, a measure of distance, the distance light travels in one year; about 63,240.
What is a metor.