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?
What is the hottest planet?
What is Venus?
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 space rock that doesn't burn up in the atmosphere and makes it to the surface of the Earth
What is a Meteorite?
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.
Which planet has the Great Red Spot?
What is Jupiter
Which planets have rings?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
This planet is closer to the Sun: Venus or Jupiter?
What is Venus?
What is the largest body in the asteroid belt?
What is Ceres?
What is the problem with the atmosphere on Venus?
It is mostly carbon dioxide and traps heat
Which planet has the largest moon, Ganymede?
What is Jupiter?
What is The Great Red Spot?
A HUGE storm on Jupiter
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
What shape is the orbit of a comet?
What is elliptical
What is a comet made of?
What is gas, ice, rock and dust
Where do long period comets live? (comets with a very long orbit)
What is the Oort Cloud
Neptune is much farther from the Sun than Earth. Explain how Neptune’s distance affects it's orbit
It's very long
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 is a piece of an asteroid
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
Where do short period (shorter orbit) comets live?
The Kuiper Belt
What is the name of a bright fireball in the sky that most people refer to as a shooting star?
Meteor
What do we call the vast, spherical shell of icy objects surrounding the solar system?
What is the Oort Cloud
What do we call the fuzzy atmosphere around a comet's core?
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 two things can a massive star leave behind at the end of it's life?
Black hole or neutron star