This planet is unlike the others because it rotates on its side
What is Uranus?
100
fuzzy, outer layer of clouds of dust and gas make this up
What is a coma?
200
The person to come up with the heliocentric solar system
Who is Ptolemy?
200
Aurora borealis or Northern Lights
What is solar wind?
200
clouds are made of mostly sulfuric acid here
What is Venus?
200
The Great Red Spot on Jupiter
What is a storm that is constantly moving and its size is bigger than Earth?
200
good atmosphere, comfortable temperatures, liquid water
What are the "goldilocks" conditions for life on Earth?
300
He concluded that orbits were actually ellipses
Who is Kepler?
300
Reddish loops of gas coming from the sun
What are prominences?
300
Maat Mons
What is the largest volcano on Venus?
300
Saturn's largest moon
What is Titan?
300
one passes through the atmosphere and hits Earth's surface; the other enters Earth's atmosphere then friction causes it to heat and produce a streak of light in the sky
What is the difference between a meteorite and a meteor?
400
He died with unfinished work, but believed the planets' orbit was NOT circular
Who is Tyco Brahe?
400
In the core, when hydrogen atoms combine to make helium
What is nuclear fusion?
400
The atmosphere here is mostly Nitrogen
What is Earth?
400
The largest moon in the entire solar system
What is Ganymede?
400
a doughnut-shaped region that extends from beyond Neptune's orbit to about 100 times Earth's distance from the sun
What is the Kuiper belt?
500
This word in Greek means "sun"
What is helios?
500
a region of tightly packed gas where energy is transferred into electromagnetic energy
What is the radiation zone?
500
The largest volcano in the solar system
What is Olympus Mons?
500
a storm that was once on Neptune but died out... similar to what is on Jupiter
What is The Great Dark Spot?
500
Oort cloud
What is the spherical region that surrounds the solar system out to more than 1,000 times the distance between Pluto and the sun?