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Solar System Models
Comets & Asteroids
Meteoroids and Such!
Terrestrial Planets
Jovian Planets
100
The early model of the solar system.
What is GEOCENTRIC?
100
The solid core of a comet.
What is the nucleus?
100
Found in Outer Space
What is a meteoroid?
100
Mercury
What is the smallest terrestrial planet?
100
Jupiter
What is the largest planet?
200
140 A.D.
When did the geocentric model become known?
200
Orbits the sun.
What are comets and asteroids?
200
Found in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
200
Rotation of Venus
What is clockwise?
200
Rotation of Uranus
What is top to bottom?
300
Ellipses
What is the orbit of planets in the heliocentric model?
300
The head and the tail.
What are the two parts of a comet?
300
Named this, once it hits the Earth.
What is a meteorite?
300
The Red Planet
What is Mars?
300
96% Hydrogen, 3% Helium
What are the gases of Saturn's atmosphere?
400
Copernicus and Galileo
Who proposed and supported the heliocentric solar system model?
400
Between Mars and Jupiter
Where is the Asteroid Belt?
400
47,900 mph
What is the speed of the meteorite that landed in Russia?
400
1 Astronomical Unit
What is Earth's distance from the sun? (93,000,000 miles or 150,000,000 km)
400
Methane in the atmosphere causes these two planets to look blue-ish.
What are Uranus and Neptune?
500
Brahe and Keppler figured this out.
What is who figured out that our planets have elliptical orbits?
500
Halley's Comet
What comet is seen from Earth every 75 years?
500
February 15, 2013
When did the meteorite hit Russia?
500
Atmosphere is 97% carbon dioxide?
What is the atmosphere of Venus?
500
Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, Titan, Triton?
What are the moons of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune?