Geocentric Heliocentric
What is geocentric?
when the Earth was thought to be in the middle.
What does Earth orbit around?
Orbits the sun and Orbits on its own axis.
What are the outer and inner layers?
Photosphere, Chromosphere, and Corona and core, radiative zone and convection zone.
What is the 4 planet from the sun?
Mars
What is a comet made out of?
Dust, rock and ice.
Who invented heliocentric?
It was Copernicus.
What is Earth's atmosphere made up of?
Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, neon and hydrogen
What does the chromosphere do?
The chromosphere emits a red glow as heated hydrogen burns off.
How many moons does Earth have?
1
What hit Earth that killed all of the dinosaurs?
An Asteroid
How did the geocentric model operate?
It operated by the Earth being in the middle and all other planets orbiting around it.
What holds the Moon from falling off of Earth's orbit?
Gravity
What does photosphere do
Releases light from energy from the Sun.
What is the 3 biggest planet?
Uranus and not the joke.
Difference between a Meteor and Meteorite?
Meteors are pieces of dust and debris that burn in Earth's atmosphere and Meteorites are when they have hit Earth.
Who proved the Heliocentric theory
Galileo or the man with the telescope.
What causes Earth's tides in the ocean?
Moons gravity
What does Corona release
Solar-winds
Arrange these planets from closest to farthest from the Sun?
Saturn, Mercury, Earth, Jupiter,Uranus, Neptune, Venus, Mars
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
What is meteoroid
A meteroid is when the meteor is about to hit Earth.
Who are the three people who thought that the sun was in the middle?
Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.
Earth's surface area and radius?
510.1 million km squared and 6,371 km.
How much mass does the Sun take up in the solar system?
This is the daily double
99.86 %
What would happen if Jupiter disappeared from the solar system?
The asteroid belt will fling asteroids across the solar system at all of the planets.
What happens when a Comet gets close to the Sun?
It spews dust and gas into a large head which is bigger than more planets