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These huge quakes release about 40,000 times more energy than the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
What are sunquakes?
100
Heavily scarred with craters.
What is Mercury?
100
Largest planet in solar system.
What is Jupiter?
100
Spinning is the natural state of all objects in the universe. Spin is controlled by the amount of rotation of the original cloud.
What do planets spin?
100
Tails of comets are made of these.
What are dust and gas?
200
It takes about 4.5 days to reach earth.
What is solar wind?
200
Surface is covered with 70% water.
What is earth?
200
Can be seen about 10 months of the year from earth.
What is Jupiter?
200
A shooting star.
What is meteor?
200
G-type star.
What is the sun?
300
These can loop hundreds of thousands of mile into space.
What are solar prominences?
300
Sometimes called the morning or evening star?
What is Venus?
300
Known at the "ringed planet."
What is Saturn?
300
Cannot clear it's neighborhood.
What is the main difference between a planet and a dwarf planet?
300
The hottest stars are these colors.
What are white and blue stars?
400
Huge, balloon-shaped plasma bursts.
What are coronal mass ejections?
400
Has no atmosphere and so there is no wind or weather.
What is the moon?
400
Rings extend for over 46,000 miles.
What is Saturn?
400
Cloud that surrounds the nucleus of a comet.
What is coma?
400
A great amount of mattter packed into a very small area which results in a gravitational field so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.
What is a black hole?
500
The core, the radiative zone, and the convection zone.
What are the layers of the sun?
500
Possibly was the most volcanically active planet.
What is Mars?
500
Second largest moon in solar system.
What is Titan?
500
Dirty snowballs the size of a small city.
What is a comet?
500
Three types of galaxies.
What are spiral, ellliptical, and irregular?