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Giants made of Gas
Terrestrial Planets
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Planets, Moons, Comets
Gas Giants
100
The atmosphere of a gas giant is ______, with many ________.
What is deep with many clouds.
100
The weathering and erosion processes on _____ involve material being moved by wind.
What is Mars?
100
What is the unit called to measure distance from the Sun?
What is AU (astronomical unit)
100
What collapsed and formed our solar system?
What is a huge cloud of material.
100
Gas planets lack what kind of surface?
What is a solid surface.
200
Chunks of ice orbiting a gas giant equator are called _______.
What are rings.
200
_______ is no longer shaped by volcanism because its interior has cooled off.
What is Mercury?
200
Why do we use AU (astronomical units)?
Kilometers are too small to measure distances of planets from the Sun.
200
Most of the material fell to the center of the solar system and became the what?
What is the Sun
200
Gas planets are much _______ and more _________ than terrestrial planets.
much larger and more massive
300
Both ____ and ____ orbit the sun.
What are comets and asteroids.
300
The atmosphere of _____ is different from that of other terrestrial planets because it is denser.
What is Venus?
300
If a planet is farther away from the Sun, will it be more or less than one AU?
More
300
What objects are smaller and orbit around planets?
What are moons.
300
Gas giants are made out of ________, _________, and _______.
What is hydrogen, helium, and heavier gases.
400
All the gas giants have what?
What are moons?
400
A brief streak of light from a falling space object is a what?
What is a meteor?
400
If a planet is closer to the Sun than the Earth, is it less or more than one AU?
What is Less.
400
Lighter frozen material that is far way from the Sun.
What are Comets.
400
Gas giants have what?
Rings