Factors for Life / Solar Activity
The most important factor for life on a planet or moon would be ____________
Water, H2O
A runaway greenhouse effect occurs because a planet's atmosphere has too much _____________
CO2
True or False, An asteroid is mostly made of ice and dust
False, that's a comet. Asteroids are mostly made of rocky or metal material
The visible layer of the Sun is called:
The Photosphere
Saturns rings are mostly made of
Ice
Sunspots are located on the __________ layer of the sun
Photosphere
The rocky planets are called ______________ planets and the gas planets are called ___________ planets
Terrestrial, Jovian
The ______ tail always faces away from the Sun, and the ____________ Tail blows back in the opposite direction the comet is traveling
Ion, Dust
The Surface Temperature of the Sun is:
A - 6,900 K
B - 1,000,000 K
C - 5,778 K
D - 2,888 K
5,778 K
Meteor showers usually occur from
a path of a comet
Which Explosion of the sun creates a "loop"
Prominence
The Jovian planets are mostly made of
Hydrogen and Helium
Give me the correct Definition of Meteor, Meteorite, Meteoroid
Bonus 100 pts, which is considered A shooting star?
Meteor is burning up in atmosphere (Shooting star)
Meteoroid is still in space
Meteorite is when it lands on Earth
The sun is mostly comprised of ___________ and then _________________
Hydrogen, Helium
How or why did the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter form?
It's leftover DEBRIS from the Early formation of the solar system that never formed into a planet because they were constantly getting tugged by Jupiter and Mars
What are the 2 main reasons why there is no life on Venus?
The temperature is too high, the pressure is too high
Give me a physical description of the 4 Galilean Moons
Io has volcanoes, Ganymede is the largest, Europa has liquid oceans under ice, Callisto is covered in craters
A majority of comets originate from the _____________ and the _______________
Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud
___________ is the process that creates energy and it happens in the _____________ of the sun
Nuclear Fusion, Core
During a solar maximum there's ___________ # of sunspots, and ___________ solar magnatism
high, high, increase
Sunspot cycle lasts __________ while the solar cycle lasts _______________.
11 years, 22 years
Give me the 7 objects of the solar system we can see with the naked eye (If you list 5 correct, you get 300, if you list all 7, you get 500)
Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
What are the 3 types of Meteorites?
Stone, Iron, Stoney - Iron
What layer of the sun comes right after the core?
Radiation or Radiative Zone
If a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) hits the Earth, give me 3 effects it would have on Earth?
Give me 2 for 300 points, 3 for 500
Knock out our satellites, electronics
Cause Solar Auroras (Northern Lights)
Severely harm astronauts in space