Solar System
Where the sun is located.
What is the center of our solar system?
The name of our galaxy.
What is The Milky Way?
How long does it take Earth to rotate one time?
What is 1 day or 24 hours?
This is the 3rd planet from the sun?
What is Earth?
Which planet is the only one known to support life and has liquid water on its surface?
What is Earth
This star is at the center of our solar system and provides most of the system’s energy.
The Sun
The phrase we learned to remember the order of the planets
What is My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos?
This is a part of an Asteroid that burns up in the atmosphere.
What is a Meteor?
The inner planets of the solar system are classified as this.
What are rocky (or terrestrial) planets?
Which planet is known as the "Red Planet" and why?
Mars — because its surface is covered with iron oxide (rust), which gives it a reddish color.
Earth's one full rotation equals
23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds (known as a sidereal day) 24 hours is acceplabel answer too
Name the term for the path that a planet follows around the sun.
Revolution or Orbit
This planet is closer to the Sun: Venus or Jupiter?
What is Venus?
Which small, distant planet is known as dwarf planet ?
What is Pluto
Earth's revolution takes this long
What is one year, 365 days, 12 months, or 52 weeks?
This is a large celestial body that emits light and is made up of plasma.
What is a Star? The Sun - in our Solar System
What best explains why different planets have different year length
The length of a planet's year (one complete orbit around the Sun) is primarily determined by its distance from the Sun,
planets that are farther away travel in much larger orbits and move at slower speeds, leading to significantly longer years.
A group of billions of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity is called a ______.
Galaxy.
Most notable characteristic(s) of the outer planets versus the inner planets.
What is larger size and/or made up of gases.
Which two planets are classified as ice giants and have strong winds and methane ?
Uranus and Neptune
Why would it be more difficult for the astronauts to run while they are in space?
What is lack of gravity
This revolves around the Earth about every 27 days.
What is the moon?
What we call an asteroid when it hits the Earth
What is a meteorite?
Neptune is much farther from the Sun than Earth. Explain how Neptune’s distance affects its revolution period and year length
Neptune is much farther from the Sun, so it travels a much larger orbit and moves more slowly in its orbit; this results in a much longer revolution period, giving Neptune a very long year
Difference between Asteroid and Comet
The 8 planets in our solar system.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
Which celestial body has the most gravity in our solar system?
What is the Sun?
What is the difference between an asteroid and a meteoroid?
An asteroid is a small rocky body orbiting the Sun (usually in the asteroid belt); a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere and burns up.
This holds all the gases in a ball and keeps the planets in their orbit.
What is gravity? Both the Sun and the planet itself
Which planet beside of Venus rotates slowly but revolves quickly, so its day can be longer than its year
What is Mercury
Define a light-year and explain why astronomers use this unit instead of kilometers for galaxy-scale distances.
What is a bright fireball that explodes in the atmosphere and can produce sonic booms called?
Meteor
These small rocky objects mostly orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in a region called the ______.
Asteroid belt.
Which planet is known for its extensive ring system made of ice and rock?
Saturn.
The planet with the shortest year ? Why - explain
Mercury , Because it is the closest planet to the Sun, it has the shortest orbital path and moves the fastest
What are 2 unique facts about Venus’s rotation compared to most other planets.
the 3rd unique characteristic of this planet for extra 200 pt
Venus rotates very slowly and in the opposite direction to most planets.
Extra credit - 200 it is upside down
This means the planet is flipped almost completely on its head Rather than being mostly upright, its North and South Poles are essentially reversed compared to the rest of the planets in our solar system