Gravity
What keeps earth and moon in orbit?
what is gravity and inertia?
what are the three start colors and temps that go with them?
•Cooler stars– appear reddish
•Mid temp– appear yellow/orangish
•Hottest stars– appear bluish
gas giants are composed mainly of what gas?
What is hydrogen?
What is a comet?
what is a dirty snowball or ice, dust and rock
The strength of the force of gravity between two objects depends on what two factors
Mass and distance
What is the biggest sized star?
What is supergiant star?
The inner planets are often called?
What are terrestrial planets?
What are the rings made up of and what planet has the most spectacular rings?
What is ice and rock and Saturn?
What is one of the two regions that comets are found?
What is Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud
The force of gravity on an object is known as what?
What is weight?
What is a device that breaks light into colors and produce an image of the resulting spectrum?
What is spectrograph?
Why is Venus the hottest planet?
What is it has the thickets atmosphere/ greenhouse effect?
What is the great red spot on Jupiter and why has it not gone anywhere?
What is storm and because there is no land to stop it or slow it down.
The astroid belt is in between what two planets?
What is mars and Jupiter?
what is the tendency of an object to resist a change in motion
What is inertia?
brightness as seen from Earth?
What is apparent brightness?
Why is mars known as the red planet?
What is it is made of iron oxide?
What is a huge group of single stars, star systems, star clusters, dust, and gas bound together by gravity
How does the comet get its tail?
What is Newton’s first law of motion?
What is an object at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion will stay I motion with a constant speed and direction unless acted on by a force.
What is brightness the star would have if it were at a standard distance from earth
What is Absolute brightness?
List the 8 planets in order?
What is Mercury, Venus, earth, mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
What are the three types of galaxies?
What are spiral, elliptical, and irregular?
What is the difference between meteor, meteorite, and meteoroid?
What is
-meteoroid is a chunk of rock or dust in space
-pass through the atmosphere and hit earths surface are called meteorites
-meteoroid enters earths atmosphere, friction with the air creates heat and produces a streak of light int the sky – a meteor