Solar System
The giant, rotating cloud of gas and dust from which our solar system is theorized to have formed about 4.6 billion years ago.
What is a nebula?
This specific movement of Earth turning daily on its axis is the direct cause of day and night.
What is rotation?
True or False: The Earth has a tilted axis.
What is true?
The Sun produces energy in its core through this process, where two hydrogens combine to form helium.
What is fusion?
This hypothesis explains the origins of the moon during solar system formation.
What is the Giant Impact Hypothesis?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars fall under this planetary classification because they are dense and rocky.
What are terrestrial planets?
Seasonal variations in temperature and daylight are caused by Earth's axial tilt combined with this yearly motion around the Sun.
What is revolution?
It is this season in Australia when the Southern hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun.
What is summer?
Energy generated in the Sun's core must travel through these two internal solar layers before reaching the surface.
What are the radiation and convection zones?
These extreme tides produce the highest tidal range and occur during the full moon and new moon phases.
What are Spring tides?
Composed primarily of gases, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune share this group classification.
What are the Gas Giants/Jovian Planets?
According to Kepler's 3rd Law of Planetary Motion, as the distance from the Sun increases, the time is takes to revolve __________.
What is increases?
The seasons in the Northern and Southern hemisphere are always __________.
This layer of the sun gives it its yellowish/white color.
What is the photosphere?
Occurring during the first and third quarter moon phases, these tides result in the lowest tidal range
What are Neap tides?
What is the name of the correct view of our solar system, with the Sun being the center and other planets revolving around it?
What is the heliocentric view?
According to Kepler's First Law of planetary motion, what is the shape of a planet's orbit?
What is an ellipse/oval/elliptical orbit?
The Earth's axis is tilted by this many degrees.
What is 23.5 degrees?
The Solar Wind, a flow of fast moving particles from the sun, are deflected by this protective Earth feature.
The Moon pulls more greatly on the tides of Earth for this reason.
What is because it is closer?
This primary force led to the collapse of the nebula and continues to keep the planets, stars, and celestial bodies in motion.
What is gravity?
According to Kepler's Second Law of planetary motion, a planet moves fastest at it point closest to the sun called ___________.
What is perihelion?
The Earth's tilt creates these two effects on Earth, which directly result in our seasons.
What are different amounts of daylight and different intensities of light?
These two layers of the Sun can ONLY be seen during a solar eclipse.
What are the chromosphere and corona?
What is the effect of the Moon's tidal lock on its view from Earth?
What is only one side can be seen?