Solar System #1
List the planets in order from the closest to the sun to furthest away.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
What planets have rings?
Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune
Rank these in order by size: Galaxy, Solar System, Universe, Planet, Star
Universe, galaxy, solar system, star, planet
What makes up 99% of the mass in our solar system?
sun
They are rocky and small.
Describe the inner planets?
Where is the oort cloud located?
beyond pluto
What is a satellite?
An object in space that orbits or circles around a bigger object.
What is Ptolemy's Model?
the Geocentric Model which stat that the Planets rotated around the earth and move in circles from bigger to smaller.
What planets are blue or blue green?
Uranus and Neptune
What planet has a great red spot and over 60 moons?
Jupiter
What is a meteorite?
Piece of an asteroid that lands on earth.
What force keeps planets in their orbit (there are two but you only need to name one)
Gravity and Inertia
Which planet is covered with water?
Earth
How many natural satellites does Earth have?
One - the moon
Describe the outer planets?
They are very large and made of gases.
What is a meteor?
piece of an asteroid that enters earth's atmosphere
What two gases make up the sun?
Hydrogen and Helium
What is Galileo's Model?
The model is the Heliocentric Model. It proposed that the planets orbit the sun.
What creates the light seen from the Sun?
Nuclear reactions inside the sun
Where is the Kuiper Belt located?
What is a meteoroid?
A rocky, irregularly shaped object in our solar system that is not an asteroid.
What is a galaxy?
Collection of stars, dust, gas bound together by gravity.
What can disrupt telecommunication on earth?
Solar Flares
What is the olympus mars?
Volcano on Mars