Between which planets is the asteroid belt located?
What is Mars and Jupiter.
200
What is in the center of the heliocentric model.
What is the Sun.
200
The layer of the Sun we see from Earth on an ordinary day.
What is the photosphere.
200
What do all the inner planets have in common?
What is they all are small and have rocky surfaces.
200
The largest outer planet.
What is Jupiter.
200
Europa is considered a good place to look for life because it may have ___________.
What is liquid water.
300
The scientist who discovered that the planets have an elliptical orbit.
Who is Johannes Kepler.
300
Explain why sun spots are darker than the areas around them.
What is they are cooler and give off less light than the areas around them.
300
Which planet rotates in the opposite direction as the other planets (clockwise)?
What is Venus.
300
Explain why Uranus is unique among the other planets in the Solar System.
What is it has a tilt approximately 90 degrees, so it rotates on its side.
300
When a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere, it produces a streak of light called a _________.
What is a meteor.
400
What is Copernicus famous for?
What is developing the heliocentric model.
400
When can you see the Sun's corona?
What is during a total solar eclipse.
400
How are Venus and Earth alike?
What is they are similar in size and density.
400
What do the first 4 outer planets have in common?
What is they are much larger than Earth and are comprised of mainly hydrogen and helium.
400
Solar wind is stream of electrically charged particles that extend outward from the Sun's _________.
What is the corona.
500
Explain how Galileo's observations of Jupiter's moons supported the heliocentric model of the Solar system.
What is he observed that Jupiter has moons which revolve around it; therefore, not everything in the Solar System revolves around Earth.
500
Explain how energy is produced in the Sun's core.
What is the extreme pressure inside the Sun's core fuses two hydrogen nucelei together forming helium. The mass lost during this fusion reaction is converted into energy.
500
The smallest inner planet with no atmosphere.
What is Mercury.
500
How did astronomers predict the existence of Neptune?
What is Neptune's gravitational effect of the orbit of Uranus.