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Christian mingle
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A large cloud of gas
What is a Nebula
100
Holds a nebula together
What is gravity
100
The cloud of gas and dust that formed our solar system
What is the solar nebula
100
Believed to form the solar system
What is the Big Bang
100
Is a measure of the average kinetic energy, or the energy of motion, of the particles in an object.
What is temperature
200
The largest planetesimals formed near the outside of what?
What is the rotating solar disc (acretion disc)
200
The earth looked like what before gravity took over?
What is a potatoe
200
Earth's core is made out of what?
What is iron and nickel
200
Where did water vapor come from?
What is a volcanoe
200
the combination of the nuclei of small atoms to form a large nucleus; releases energy
What is nuclear fusion
300
the layer of rock that extends 2,900 km below the surface
What is the mantle
300
A dark area of the photosphere
What is a sunspot
300
The earth was formed from what?
What are planetesimals
300
Regions of extremely high temperature and brightness that develop on the sun's surface
What are solar flares
300
The sun's outer atmosphere
What is the corona
400
The spin of a body on its axis.
What is rotation
400
Very dense region about 300,000 km thick
What is the radiative zone
400
A thin region below the corona, only 30,000 km thick
What is the chromosphere
400
Kepler's second law of motion?
What is planets seemed to move faster when they are closer to the sun and slower when they are farther away
400
Volcanoes release 3 things in addition to large amounts of carbon dioxide and water vapor
What is chlorine, nitrogen, and sulfer
500
The motion of a body that travels around another body in space
What is revolution
500
(TRUE or FALSE) The first step to the growth of continents where gradually thickening and slowly rising about the surface of the ocean.
What is false. (SECOND STEP)
500
Kepler's third law
What is planets farther away from the sun take longer to orbit the sun.
500
The path that a body follows as it travels around another body in space
What is orbit
500
An ellipses maximum length
What is major axis