Solar System
Where the sun is located.
What is the center of our solar system?
The name of our galaxy.
What is The Milky Way?
How long does it take Earth to rotate one time?
What is 1 day or 24 hours?
This is the 3rd planet from the sun?
What is Earth?
Which planet is the only one known to support life and has liquid water on its surface?
What is Earth
what are the two major gases the outer planets are made of?
Hydrogen and Helium
How is an impact crater formed?
What is an impact crater is formed by a meteorite impacting a planet or moon?
This a streak of light in the atmosphere made by an object in space
What is a Meteor?
The inner planets of the solar system are classified as this and why?
terrestrial planets because they have a rocky surface
Which planet is known as the "Red Planet" and why?
Mars — because its surface is covered with iron oxide (rust), which gives it a reddish color.
Which planet has the Great Red Spot?
What is Jupiter?
Name the term for the path that a planet follows around the sun.
Revolution or Orbit
This planet is closer to the Sun: Venus or Jupiter?
What is Venus?
Which small, distant planet is known as dwarf planet ?
What is Pluto
Earth's revolution takes this long
What is one year, 365 days, 12 months, or 52 weeks?
This is a large celestial body that emits light and heat in our solar system.
The Sun
Why do planet's have different times to orbit the sun? Example Earth take 1 year but Jupiter takes 11.9 year.
The length of a planet's year (one complete orbit around the Sun) is primarily determined by its distance from the Sun,
planets that are farther away travel in much larger orbits and move at slower speeds, leading to significantly longer years.
A group of billions of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity is called a ______.
Galaxy.
Most notable characteristic(s) of the outer planets versus the inner planets.
What is larger size and/or made up of gases.
Which two planets are classified as ice giants and have strong winds and methane ?
Uranus and Neptune
Why would it be more difficult for the astronauts to run while they are in space?
What is lack of gravity
A planet's orbit is this shape.
Ellipse
What we call an asteroid when it hits the Earth
What is a meteorite?
why is Venus the hottest planet?
because of the strong greenhouse effect.
Difference between Asteroid and Comet
The 8 planets in our solar system.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
Which celestial body has the most gravity in our solar system?
What is the Sun?
What is the difference between an asteroid and a meteoroid?
An asteroid is a small rocky body orbiting the Sun (usually in the asteroid belt); a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere and burns up.
This holds all the gases in a ball and keeps the planets in their orbit.
gravity
what is a unique fact about Uranus' rotation
it rotates on it's side because of extreme tilt.
How do Astronomers measure the distances in space?
What is a meteoroid that strikes the surface of a planet or a moon?
Meteorite
These small rocky objects mostly orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in a region called the ______.
Asteroid belt.
Which planet is known for its extensive ring system made of ice and rock?
Saturn.
The planet is the coldest?
Uranus
Which two planets have 0 moons?
Mercury and Venus