The Solar System
What is our Sun?
What is a Star.
What is it called when there is more than one full moon in a month?
What is a blue moon.
Which of the following IS NOT one of the star types we talked about.
- White Giants
- Red Giants
- Brown Dwarfs
- Neutron Stars
What is White Giants.
The universe is defined as what?
What is:
- as all of space and everything in it.
What are the 4 terrestrial planets?
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
What is 6 Trillion Miles.
What moon feature is large, dark grey, and relatively smooth?
What is a Mare.
True or False:
The correct order of Dwarf Planets from the sun are:
Ceres - Pluto - Haumea - Makemake - Eris
What is True.
What is an Exoplanet?
What is any planet beyond our solar system.
What is the sun mostly composed of?
What is Hydrogen and Helium.
How far away is our Sun from the Earth?
What is 93 million miles.
The moon has no effect on the tides.
What is a baby star called?
What is a protostar.
The ancient Greeks said this white streak was a "river of milk". Who called the Milky Way the Via Galactica or "road made of milk"?
What is the ancient Romans.
What lunar feature is roundish, has a raised rim, and a flat floor?
What is a Crater.
True or False
Saturn is more massive than all of the other planets combined.
What is False.
What is it called when the moon is between the sun and the earth and the dark side of the moon is facing the earth?
What is a New Moon.
What is the large region in the cold, outer reaches of our solar system beyond Neptune called?
What is the Kuiper Belt.
The shape of our galaxy is spiral but in space it would look like a large , rotating in space.
What is pinwheel.
A teaspoon of what type of star's material would weigh more than a pickup truck?
What is a white dwarf star.
What mission allowed scientists to discover what Venus actually looks like?
What is the Magellan Mission.
What are the two types of eclipses we talked about?
What is Solar and Lunar.
These type of asteroids are made up of silicate materials and nickel-iron.
What is S-Types of Asteroids.
How long does it take our solar system to make one complete orbit around the Milky Way galaxy?
What is about 240 Million years.
For a planet to be considered a Dwarf Planet, it needs to be missing 1 of these 3 components. What are those 3 components?
What is a:
1. Orbit its host star.
2. Be mostly round.
3. Be big enough that its gravity cleared away any other objects of similar size near its orbit around the sun.