Inner Planets
Smallest terrestrial planet?
What is Mercury?
Holds this much mass in our Solar System.
What is 99%?
After which planet do we consider them "Outer Planets"?
What is Mars?
Collection of loose ice, dust, and rocky particles.
What is a comet?
What is the Imaginary line passing through the North and South Poles?
What is the Axis?
Which planet takes 8 Earth months to turn once on it's axis?
What is Venus?
The center is the ______ and most ________.
What are Hottest and Dense?
Name all of the gases the Outer Planets have in common.
What are Helium, Hydrogen, and Methane.
Large ones can change their own shape due to______.
What is gravity?
What is the "path" that earth travels around the sun?
What is Orbit?
Which planet has the most suitable atmosphere to sustain life?
What is Earth?
What is the center of the Sun called?
What is the Core?
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
What is Jupiter?
Comet "tail" is called?
What is a "Coma"?
Spinning of Earth on it's axis.
What is Rotation?
Small, dense, and rocky four planets closest to the sun
What are Terrestrial planets?
A thick layer of the Sun where energy moves by radiation.
What is the Radiative Zone?
How long is Jupiter's rotation?
What is less than ten Earth hours?
The space rocks that earth always runs into are more commonly referred to as?
What are Shooting Stars?
The act of Earth traveling around the Sun?
What is Revolution?
Acid rain on _____ is caused by ______ in it's atmosphere.
What are Venus and Carbon Dioxide?
Huge loops of glowing gas.
What is prominence?
Which Outer Planet has the same temperature as Uranus? Why?
What is Neptune?
What is because it is hotter on the inside due to the large amount of methane gas?
Starts out as a __________ floating in space, then Earth hits it and it becomes __________, then it is too large to burn up in the atmosphere so it hits Earth's ground as a ____________.
What is Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorite?
Why does the distance between Earth and the Sun change throughout the 365 day orbit?
What is because of the elliptical orbit shape?