EarthCategory
Solar System
Planets
What a planet has
Asteroids, Comets Etc
100
Axis
What is what does the earth rotate around in one day?
100
the sun, the planets, their moons, and a variety of small objects
What is Solar System
100
an object that orbits around the sun and has enough gravity to be sphertical, but has not cleared the area of its orbit
What is Dwarf Planet
100
a large round pit that can be hundreds of Kiliometers across
What is a Crater
100
a loose collection of ice
What is a comet
200
what an object does when it spins around a central axis
What is rotates
200
chunks of rock or dust from space
What is meteoroids
200
Must be round, orbit the sun, and have cleared out the region of the solar system along its orbit
What is Planet
200
dark, flat areas that are hardened rock formed from huge lava flows that occurred 3-4 billion years ago
What is Maria
200
a fuzzy outer layer formed from clouds of gas and dust
What is a Coma
300
a region of the solar system between Mars and Jupiter
What is Asteroid belt
300
an inner planet that is small and dense and has a rocky surface
What is Terrestrial Planet
300
a thin disk of small particles and rock
What is a ring
300
small, irregular, rocky objects that orbit the sun, most of which are too small and too numerous to be considered planets OR dwarf planets
What is an Asteroid
400
The movement of one object around another
What is Revolution
400
region beyond Neptune's orbit which exctends about 100 times Earth's distance from the sun
What is Kuiper Belt
400
four outer planets that are much larger and more massive than Earth and that do not have solid surfaces
What is Gas Giants
400
the orbit of each planet, an oval shape
What is Ellipse
400
a streak of light that is formed when a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere and there's friction with the air that creates heat
What is Meteor
500
Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars
What is geocentric
500
the area beyond the Kuiper belt that stretches out more than 1,000 times the distance between the sun and neptune
What is Oort Cloud
500
small bocies formed by rock and ice
What is planetesimal
500
Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun
What is Heliocentric
500
larger meteoroids that do not burn up; they pass through the atmosphe and are found on earth's surface
What is Meteorites
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