What season is the Southern Hemisphere having when the Northern hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun?
What is Summer
100
list the inner planets in order starting with the closest to the Sun
What is Mercury, venus, earth, mars
100
closest to the Sun
What is Mercury
100
Biggest gas giant
What is Jupiter
200
an asteroid or comet debris that lands on the Earth
What is meteorite
200
Name one reason Earth is perfect for life
What is atmoshpere, distance from Sun, rotation time
200
why would a comet passing Pluto not have a tail?
What is because it did not melt
200
Why does the Moon have more craters than Earth?
What is no atomosphere to protect it from space objects
200
planet with 3/4 ice and water and 1/4 land
What is earth
300
a planet's orbit orbit around the Sun
What is a revolution
300
a star and the objects that revolve around it is called...
What is a solar system
300
Name one way a comet differs from an asteroid
What is tail, longer orbit
300
why do craters last forever on the moon?
a. moon has no atmosphere
b. Moon has no oxygen
c. Moon has no water or wind
d. Moon is smaller than the Earth
What is C
300
last planet in the solar system (not pluto)
What is Neptune
400
Earth complete one _____________ in a 24 hours period
What is rotation
400
What determines the how long a year is?
What is the revolution time
400
name the outer planets in order starting with the closest to the Sun
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, neptune
400
What causes high and low tides?
a. Earth's gravity b. moon's gravity c. Pluto's orbit
d. the amount of objects in the ocean at a certain time
What is the moon's gravity
400
thick atmosphere that traps heat making it the hottest inner planet
What is venus
500
a student said he saw a shooting star. What did he really see?
What is a meteor
500
What determines how long a day is on a planet?
What is rotation time
500
name two ways the inner and outer planets are the same and how they are different
What is inner: rocky, smaller
Outer: bigger, gaseous
Same: revolve, rotate