Sun
The sun is the center of this
The Solar System
This is the planet that is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
A small mass of dust and ice that orbits the sun in a long, oval-shaped path
What is a Comet?
This planet is known for the storm that is always happening
What is Jupiter?
It takes the earth 365 days to do this.
What is revolve (orbit) around the sun?
is a type of gas sphere that gives off light and heat.
What is The Sun?
Earth, Mars, __?__ __?__, Jupiter, Saturn
What is the Asteroid Belt?
A small rocky object that moves around the Sun
What is an Asteroid?
most distant planet from the sun; "Great Dark Spot"
What is Neptune?
This is how long it takes earth to complete one rotation.
What is 24 Hours or one day?
A cooler spot on the suns photosphere
What is a Sunspot?
These are the gas giants.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
Asteroids travel in space and vary in size and shape. Movement of all asteroids is based on what characteristic?
What is Revolution around the sun
This planet could float due to being less dense than the other planets
What is Saturn?
When an object moves around its own axis.
What is Rotation?
______ are huge loops or sheets of gas erupting from active regions around sunspots. These features arch into the Sun's atmosphere and connect pairs of sunspots.
What is a Prominence?
This is what all the planets have in common?
What is "they revolve around the sun?"
The region of space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in which most asteroids in our solar system are located
This planet has the longest year and the longest period of revolution?
What is Neptune?
When an object moves around another object.
What is Revolution?
During solar flares, the amount of solar wind directed to Earth increases dramatically. When the solar wind reaches Earth, it can create auroras—streamers of reddish or greenish light in the sky.
Where are auroras most clearly visible?
What are the Northern and Southern Lights
This planet is known as the "sideways planet" and is cooler than 6 other planets.
What is Uranus?
When a planet's or moon's gravity pulls a meteoroid into it's atmosphere, it is no longer in space. Its name changes. Typically, the friction between the atmosphere and the rock causes the meteor to burn completely.
What is a Meteor?
Since planets are either rocky or gaseous, what is the movement of the planets reliant on?
What is the planets all rely on the revolution around the sun and the rotation of their axis.
The more massive an object, the greater its _________________
What is gravitational pull?