Inner Planets
The four inner planets are called...
What is terrestrial?
The four outer planets are called...
What are Gas Giants?
Areas of gas on the sun's surface that cooler than the gases around them
What are sunspots?
A small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere appearing as a streak of light, aka shooting star
What is a meteor
Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars is what model?
What is the geocentric model?
Some regions of Mars have giant...
What are volcanoes?
All the outer planets have many ...
What are moons?
Huge loops of gas that link different parts of sun spots regions are called
A celestial body of ice, dust and rock with an elongated and elliptical orbit
What is a comet
Scientists use the ... to measure distances within the solar system.
What is the AU (Astronomical Unit)?
The inner planets are small and dense and have smooth surfaces.
True or False?
What is false.
They are rocky
A ... is a think disk or small particles of ice and rock
What is a ring?
You see the middle layer of the sun's atmosphere at the start and end of a total eclipse. It is called...
What is the chromosphere
Large and small rocks or metallic masses orbiting the Sun
What is an Asteroid
Moons are also called ...
What are satellites?
What is carbon dioxide?
What is blue color?
The corona sends out a stream of charged particles called the...
What is solar wind?
Remains of meteoroids that strike the surface of a planet or moon
What is a Meteorite?
The solar system began to form as ... pulled rock, ice and gas together.
What is gravity?
All the inner planets have an atmosphere except...
What is Mercury?
All the gas giants' atmospheres are made up primarily of helium and ...
The solar wind can interact with Earth's magnetic field to create powerful electric currents that cause ... near the poles
A natural chunk of rock or dust existing outside of Earth's atmosphere.
What is a Meteoroid
Our planets orbit in what shape?
What is an ellipse?