Observing the Solar System (History)
The Sun
Inner Planets
The Outer Planets
Comets, Asteroids, Meteors
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The Earth-centered model of the solar system.
What is geocentric model?
100
The region of the Sun's interior where hot gases and cooler gases exchange each other
What is the convection zone?
100
The smallest terrestrial planet
What is Mercury?
100
The big storm located on Jupiter
What is the Great Red Spot?
100
Loose collections of ice, dust, and rocky particles that orbit in a narrow ellipse
What is a comet?
200
The instrument that Galileo helped to improve
What is the telescope?
200
In the Sun, hydrogen fuses together to form this element
What is helium?
200
The planet that is most similar to Earth in density and internal structure
What is Venus?
200
Name one of Jupiter's largest moons
What are Callisto OR Europa OR Io OR Ganymede
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A doughnut-shaped region that extends just beyond Neptune's orbit
What is the Kuiper Belt?
300
The Sun-centered model of the solar system
What is heliocentric model?
300
Reddish loops of gases on the Sun
What are prominences?
300
The gas that is most abundant on Mars
What is carbon dioxide?
300
The planet that has an axis of rotation at about 90 degrees from the vertical
What is Uranus?
300
A spherical region of comets that surrounds the solar system
What is the Oort Cloud?
400
Kepler found that each planet orbits around the Sun in this shape
What is an ellipse?
400
The part of the Sun's atmosphere you see during a solar eclipse
What is the corona?
400
The trapping of heat by the atmosphere on Venus that makes it so hot
What is the greenhouse effect?
400
The second-largest planet in the solar system (this planet has a moon named Titan)
What is Saturn?
400
A chunk of rock or dust that breaks up in the Earth's orbit and creates a streak in the sky
What is a meteorite?
500
Galileo proved the heliocentric model by watching this planet
What is Venus?
500
Areas of gas on the sun's surface that are cooler than the areas around them
What are sunspots?
500
The reason that we believe Mars once had liquid water
What is ripples on surface in photos OR fossils found in meteorites on Earth
500
Pluto's "single moon" in the book, or pair in "binary planet"
What is Charon?
500
A meteoroid that hits the Earth's surface
What is a meteorite?
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