Solar System
The system consisting of the sun and the planets & other objects that revolve around it
A giant ball of hot gas.
What is a star?
How much gravitational pull an object has.
What is gravitational force?
The dividing line that cuts the Earth into 2 seperate halves, North & South.
What is the equator?
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is jupiter?
The historical model of our solar system that has the Earth as the center of the solar system.
What is the geocentric model?
This is what all stars begin as.
What is a nebula?
The 2 properties that affect the force of gravity between 2 objects.
What is mass and distance?
(100 points each)
What are the tilt of the Earth, and relative location to the sun?
The smallest planet in the solar system.
What is Mercury?
The unit of measurement that is equal to the distance between the center of the Earth and the Center of the Sun.
The reason our sun will not go supernova.
What is our sun is an average star and only massive stars go supernova.
The hottest planet in our solar system.
What is Venus?
The unit of time that gets its name from the word moon.
What is a month?
The number of moon phases there are.
What is 8?
The difference between a meteoroid, meteor, & meteorite.
(all or none)
A Meteroid is in space.
A Meteor is in the atmosphere.
A Meteorite is on the Earth's surface.
The 5 ways the stars differ.
What is mass, size, temperature, color, luminosity?
What is the further away you are the longer it's year will be?
the reason why spring tides only occur during full and new moon.
The 2 possible phases after a supernova.
What is a Neutron Star or Black Hole?
(200 for each correct response)
The 5 dwarf planets in our solar system.
(proper pronunciation)
100 points for each correct response
What is:
Pluto (pl-oo-toe)
Makemake (ma-keh-ma-keh)
Eris (air-iss)
Haumea (How-may-uh)
Ceres (see-reez)
The reason red stars are the coolest.
Stars become red once they enter the ending phase of their lives and red indicates the star is running low on fuel/gas.
The small particles of rock, ice, and gas that were pulled together by gravity. The early stages of planets forming.
What are planetesimals?
The difference between a solar and lunar eclipse.
a solar eclipse is when the moon is between the sun and the Earth. (SME)
(Moons shadow on the sun.)
A lunar eclipse is when the Earth is between the moon and the sun. (SEM)
(Earth's shadow on the moon)
The name of the nebula visible from the night sky located south of Orion's belt.
What is the Orion Nebula?