Our Solar System
True or False: An Earth-centered model of the universe is called a geocentric model.
What is True
True or False: The corona is the thin, middle layer of the sun
What is False: The Chromosphere
True or False: Each gas planet is small, dense and rocky.
True or False: The farthest planet from the sun is Uranus.
Ture or False: An asteroid is a small body of rock, which obits the sun.
What is the Heliocentric system
What is the Sun at the center of the solar system.
What are eruptions of hot gas from the sun's surface?
What are flares
What is the correct order of the inner planets in terms of size, starting with the smallest?
What is Mercury, Mars, Venus and Earth
Which planet in our solar system is the largest, but has a fast rotation of only 10 hours?
What is Jupiter
What is a space object that reaches Earth's surface called?
What is a Meteorite
What tool did Galileo used to support his heliocentric model of the solar system.
What is a telescope.
The sun's energy comes from what?
What is nuclear fusion
What inner planet is often referred to as "Earth's sister planet"?
What is Netune and Uranus
Which solar body is commonly referred to as a "shooting star"?
What is a meteor
Which of the following is not found in our solar system?
A. 8 planets
B. North Star
C. Sun
D. Asteroids and comets
What is B. North Star
What layer of the sun means visible light and moves by radiation?
What is the Photosphere
Mar's polar ice caps are mostly made of what?
What is frozen carbon dioxide (Dry ice)
What two things do the outer planets all share in common besides being gas planets?
What are moons and rings
Many of what objects move between Mars and Jupiter?
What are asteroids
The solar system consists of what general obejcts?
What object in our solar system has the most mass and therefore most of the gravity in the solar system?
What is the Sun
What planet is the smallest, closest to the sun, and can get hotter than 420*C or (788*F)
What is Mercury
What planet is the largest planet and is more than 10 times larger than Earth in diameter?
What is Jupiter
What is a meteoriod