How
This is a process that helped shape an inner planet when an object hits a planet's surface so fast that if causes an explosion
What is impact cratering?
This is the process that shaped an inner planet that changed a crust due to hot materials underneath
What is tectonics?
This is one thing that asteroids and comets have in common
What is they both orbit the sun?
True or False: The inner planets have just as many moons as the gas giants?
What is false?
This is Earth's average distance from the sun, or 1 AU
What is 93 million miles?
This is what the rings around planets are made of
What is primarily ice?
Explain the atmosphere of the gas giants? What force made the atmosphere of the gas giants possible?
What is the atmosphere is so large there is alot of mass. The HUGE gravitational force from such a large mass is enough to pull the atmosphere together and make it very dense. Inside: More dense that water
Outside: less dense - - like Earth!
The final steps in how the solar system was formed is
What is the frozen gases and bits of dust stuck together in clumps. These large clumps became planets?
This is one way thing that all planets have in common with each other
* Answers will vary
These are all the items included in our Solar System
What is Our star (sun), planets, dwarf planets, dozens of moons, millions of asteroids, comets, meteorites....
EVERYTHING BOUND BY GRAVITY!
True or false: The sizes of the inner planets and the gas giants are about the same
What is false?
This is the atmosphere for the gas giants
What is the atmosphere is very deep, made mostly of hydrogen, helium, and other gases. The atmosphere composes most of the planets.
This is the process that helped to shape an inner planet that when molten rock moves from a planet's hot interior onto its surface
What is volcanism?
The temperature on Venus is usually the same because
What is of its dense atmosphere?
*Venus' atmosphere is made of CO2 what slows the loss of energy and makes the surface hot
This is what comets are made primarily out of
What is ice?
This is one thing planets have in common with each other
*Answers will vary
A meteor is
What is a bright streak of light from a falling space object?
How is Jupiter not affected by volcanism, weathering and erosion, or tectonics?
What is Jupiter is made out of gas, not rock. There is no solid surface for these processes to take place. While there are strong winds, there is no surface to affect?
This is a process that shaped the inner planet's rocky crust when small impacts break down rocks and the broken material is moved by a group of processes
What is weathering and erosion?
What is Mercury's huge iron core shrunk when it cooled? *It's interior has cooled off
This is how the atmosphere was formed for the terrestrial planets
What is formed from gases poured out of volcanoes. On Venus, Earth, and Mars, hydrogen and helium escape?
This is how a moon is different than a planet
What is a moon is in orbit around a planet
or
a moon is smaller than its planet?
This is what happened when Mars' mantle moved and pushed up the surface
What is tectonic processes caused large, raised areas?
This is the first step in how the solar system was formed
What is a huge cloud of different gases and specks of dust were flattened into a disk?
This is what AU stands for
What is Astronomical Unit?