Where are u?
What country are u in?
USA
What are the outer planets?
Jupiter Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
all of these planets have rings
these planets are mostly made of hydrogen and helium
What is mass?
A measurement of how much material an object is made of or how much space it takes up.
What are comets
A ball w Chunks of ice and dust , less than 100 miles wide, nucleus: icy core of comet, coma: atmosphere made of gas in comet, Tail: trail of vapor behind a planet Comets are easily vaporized
what is the icy clouds at the edge of the solar system that feeds comets
The oort cloud
where is the country?
Earth
What are the inner planets
Mercury Venus Earth and Mars
they are very terrestrial and rocky
What is diameter
The length of a line that goes from edge to edge of a circle while going through the center
What are asteroids
what is the main difference between a comet and asteriod?
Around 600 miles wide, orbits sun, most in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, aster=stars, any asteroids in the kuiper belt
volatiles
What lies between Mars and Jupiter
The Main Asteroid Belt
Where is Earth
In the solar system
What keeps all the planets in orbit
The Sun's gravity
What is gravity
A force that pulls objects together
What is a fire ball
A meteor that burns going through Earth's atmosphere and leaves a streak of light for a long time. Can form a meteoriod
A comet becomes visible in the sky when it is close to the _________
Sun
Where is the solar system
The milky way where the planets and other planetary satellites orbit the sun
What is the hottest planet
Venus because of it's thick atmosphere keeping hot air in
What is a time period?
The time it takes for something to complete a cycle
What is the difference between Meteors, Meteoriods, and meteorites
Meteoroids are chunks of asteriod that travel through space, meteors are meteoroids that enter a planet's atmosphere, meteorites are meteors that strike the surface of a planet or moon
Where is the milky way
In the observable universe
also the exact place is the orion's arm
Which planet's axis is horizontal so that it seems to lay on its side?
Uranus
What is a rotation and orbit period?
A rotation period is how long it takes a celestial body to complete a spin on its axis
an orbit period is how long it takes a celestial body to complete a circle around the celestial body it orbits
What are meteoriods and meteorites
Meteoriods are pieces of a comet or asteriod, size of a grain of sand, hits earth or burns in atmosphere, can see meteoriods in meteor showers
meteorites are when a meteoriod doesn't fully burn up in the air and falls to earth as a meteorite