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Vocab
Vocab
Facts about the Solar System
Planets
Potpourri
100
A new start tha forms in a nebula
What is a Protostar
100
A large rock in space
What is an Asteroid?
100
Model that has the sun at the center of the solar system
What is the heliocentric model?
100
Mercury is a gas _____
What is a giant?
100
The sune rises in the ______ and sets in the ____
What is east and west?
200
The explosion of a star
What is a Supernova
200
A chunk of ice and rock in space
What is a comet?
200
Model that has the earth as the center of the universe and everything orbits around it
What is geocentric model?
200
Earth is a ______ planet
What is terrestrial planet?
200
A _____ is a possible solution to a scientific problem written as an If.....then statement
What is a hypothesis?
300
A body in space that gives off light
What is a star?
300
A small chunk of rock that enters the earth's atmosphere; shooting star
What is a meteor?
300
Planets revolve around the sun in an ______ orbit
What is elliptical?
300
Name two of the four gas giants
What are Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Saturn?
300
These rocks form when magma or lava solidifies
What is igneous rocks?
400
Patterns of stars in the sky
What are constellations?
400
A clod of dust and gas in space
What is a nebula?
400
________ keeps planets in orbit around the sun
What is gravity?
400
Our sun and planets are part of this galaxy.
What is the milky way?
400
How a mineral reflects light
What is luster?
500
Billions of stars in the region of the universe
What is a galaxy?
500
Way to measure distance in space
What is a light year?
500
Determines the color of a star
What is temperature?
500
Name all the planets in order from the sun
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
500
The amount of time it takes the moon to revolve around the earth
What is one month?