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What is the term used to talk about the Earth in the center of the Solar System.
What is Geocentric?
What is a term used for a burning ball of gas.
What is a star?
Particles released from the Corona of the Sun.
What is Solar Wind?
Gases turning to heat in the Earth’s atmosphere.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
The distance that light travels in vacuum in one Julian year.
What is a Light Year?
What is the term used to talk about planets, and asteroids revolve around the Sun.
What is Heliocentric?
A process in which two atomic nuclei combine to form a larger nucleus, which form a heavier element, releasing huge amounts of energy.
What is Nuclear Fusion?
A dark area of gas on the sun’s surface that is cooler than the gases around it.
What is a Sunspot?
A giant planet made mainly up of hydrogen and helium.
What is a Gas Giant?
The charged center of an atom and has protons and neutrons.
What is Nucleus?
An Astronomical event that happens when an object is temporarily covered and is not able to be viewed.
What is Eclipse?
A term used when two nucleus spread apart.
What is Nuclear Fission?
The galaxy that contains our Solar System.
What is the Milky Way?
A ring shape region in the Solar System full of asteroids. That wraps around planets roughly between Jupiter and Mars.
What is a Asteroid Belt?
Small planets that are in the inner solar system.
What is an Asteroid?
A system of the Sun and the objects that orbit around it.
What is the Solar System?
Something that can be formed by a death of a star.
How are Black Holes formed?
All of Space that contains galaxies, stars, and many things in Space.
What is the Universe?
The smallest to Largest. Galaxy, Universe, Solar System
The Solar System, Galaxy, Universe is the smallest to largest and how the Universe is formed.
A small rock in outer space that would become a meteor if it entered the earth's atmosphere.
What is a Meteoroid?
A body moving in a circular motion around a star.
What is a planet?
The outermost layer of the Sun.
What is the Corona?
A planet silicate rocks and metal, and they are the four most innermost planets, named Mars, Venus, Earth, and Mercury.
What are terrestrial planets?
An icy small ball, when passing the Sun it warms and begins to release gases which is a process called outgassing.
What is a Comet?
A rocky body in outer space, they are usually smaller than asteroids and range in size from small grains of dust one meter objects.
What is a meteor?