Terrestrial Planets
Which planet is the only one to support life?
What is Earth?
Which planet is the largest?
What is Jupiter?
What determines a star's color?
What is temperature?
Material? Distance?
Before we knew that the Earth revolved around the Sun, what planet did people believe the Sun revolved around?
What is Earth?
False
What is the smallest planet in our solar system?
What is Mercury?
Which planet has the most moons?
What is Saturn?
What color star is the coldest?
What is red?
Italian Philosopher that spoke up that the Sun did not revolve around the Earth.
Who is Galileo?
The name of the outer layer of a huge explosion that ends a massive star's life?
What is a supernova?
Which planet is referred to as Earth's twin?
What is Venus?
What is Saturn?
True or False: There are no green stars.
True
This American scientist had a telescope named after him.
Who is Edwin Hubble?
This is what sometimes remains when a star comes to the end of it's life.
What is a black hole?
Which planet is called the "morning or evening star"?
What is Venus?
What planet "rolls around the Sun on it's side"?
What is Uranus?
What determines a star's volume and density?
What is mass?
This German Physicist studied light, wavelengths, and radiation.
Who is Gustav Kirchoff?
Born of dying massive stars with strong magnetic fields and fast rotation.
What is a neutron star?
Which planet has largest volcano called the 'Olympus Mons'?
What is Mars?
True or False: Jupiter has rings.
True
Refers to stars moving away from us and being "red-shifted".
What is the Doppler Effect?
What is the name of this formula?
v = Hd
What is Hubble's Law?
The name of when gas and dust in space feel more pull on the side nearest a black hole?
What is tidal force?