Outer Planets
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100

The outer planets can also go by another name? What is that name?

Gas Giant 

100

Pluto is the most famous example of which small body in the solar system?

Dwarf Planet 

100

Nuclear Fusion takes place where in the sun? 

The core 

100
What is the first planet in the Solar System?

Mercury 

200

The first gas giant is?

Saturn 

200

Typically found in-between the inner and outer planets.  They are small irregularly shaped rocky object  

Asteroids 

200

The Heliocentric Model of the Solar System has what in the middle of it?

The sun 

200

This planet is rotates on its side 

Uranus 

300

Name 2 characteristics that all Gas Giants share.

Al have .... rings, large, cold, large gaseous atmosphere, moons, farthest orbiting planets 

300

Known as a shooting star. Is a rocky body that burns up within the the earth's atmosphere 

Meteor 

300

In Kepler's Laws- How many focus points are there? AND what is the main focus 

2, the sun 

300

Which planet has the most moons?

Saturn has the most moons 

400
What is the rotating disk around planets in which moons exist. 

Planetary Rings 

400

Thick cloud surrounding the solar system

Oort Cloud 

400

Write the FULL equation of nuclear Fusion 

H+H=Deuterium 

Deuterium +H=He-3

He-3+he-3=He-4 

Energy produced 

400

This planet is known as Earth's Sister due to similar sizes 

Venus 

500

Explain the Revolution and Rotation of the Gas Giants

ROTATION= FASTER FOR GAS GIANTS 

REVOLUTION= LONGER FOR GIANTS 

500

Explain what is located in the Kuiper Belt 

small icy bodies, dwarf planets, comets 
500

Explain the suns rotation- term and definition 

Differential Rotation: Different areas travel in different speeds in the same body 

500

Which planet has the Big Red Spot on it?

Jupiter

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