Our Solar System 1
A hot ball of gases that gives off great amounts of energy.
What is Sun?
What are the inner planets composed of?
Rock, Earth, Land.
Frozen chunks of ice and dust that orbit around the Sun.
What is Comets?
A _________ is a planet made of mostly Hydrogen and Helium.
What is a Gas Giant?
How many miles is ONE Astronomical Unit?
What is 93,000,000 miles?
A ______ is a mostly spherical object that orbits, or travels around, a planet.
What is a moon?
Small rocky objects orbiting the Sun;
What is Astroids?
Saturn
Which planet rotates on its side?
What is Uranus?
What is a Meteorite?
What is a small, rocky object that has hit the surface of a planet or moon?
The streak of light in the night sky that results from a meteoroid entering Earth’s atmosphere;
What is Meteors?
What Country first visited Venus?
Russia.
What is a Period of Rotation?
What is the time it takes for an object to rotate 360 degrees on its own axis?
Mars.
What Dwarf Planet Orbits farthest from our sun?
What is Eris?
The sun, the planets and their moons, and other objects that orbit the Sun
What is solar system?
Make a list of all planets that humans have landed robots on.
Mars and Venus
Describe the internal structure of the inner planets? (4 parts)
Solid inner core, liquid outer core, mantle, crust
The average surface temperature of Venus
About 1000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The result of objects with mass warping the fabric of space creating a force of attraction.
What is gravity?
What is the name of Eris' lone moon?
What is Dysomnia?
Make a list of all the planets in our solar system that have a ring system.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
How many space probes have left the solar system?
2. Voyager one and Voyager 2
two more are planned to leave.
Long period comets come from a region of our solar system know as the __________?
What is the Oort Cloud?
What is the largest moon in our Solar System?
Ganymede, moon of Jupiter.