Vocabulary
A system of objects that revolve around a star. It is made up of the 8 planets that orbit the Sun, and it also includes all non-planetary objects such as comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and moons.
What is the Solar System?
List the order of the planets...
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
These are the only planets with no moons
What are Mercury and Venus?
This is the name of a meteoroid when it enters the atmosphere.
What is meteor?
The name of small rocky objects including Pluto that does not fit all the criteria to be a planet.
What is a Dwarf Planet?
Day and night is created by this motion of the Earth.
What is the Earth's rotation?
List three traits the inner planets share...
What is 1. closest to the Sun, 2. warmer and smaller, 3. made of a solid rock and metal?
These are the planets in the Solar System that have rings.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
These are chunks of ice and other material that move in long, narrow orbits mostly beyond Neptune. Also known as "cosmic snowballs".
What are comets?
These objects orbit in the Kuiper Belt.
What are comets?
A piece of rock or metal from space that strikes Earth's surface.
What is a meteorite?
These planets are known as the inner or terrestrial planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
This planet has 2 moons.
What is Mars?
The attractive force that keeps the planets orbiting around the Sun.
What is gravity?
The shape of the orbit of planets around the Sun.
What is nearly circular?
An area in the solar system beyond the planets where many small, icy bodies are located.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
The outer planets are made of ...
What is gas?
This is the largest moon in the Solar System and orbits around this planet.
What is Ganymede and Jupiter?
These are solid, chunks of rocks or metal that orbit the Sun in a belt mostly between Mars and Jupiter.
What is an asteroid?
The 3 things that an object must have to be categorized as a planet.
What is
1. Orbit a star (like our Sun)
2. Spherical Shape
3. Be able to have an orbit free of other smaller objects (clear its atmosphere)
An area in space where gravity is so strong that even light cannot escape it. This is created when a large star runs out of fuel and can no longer support its weight.
What is a Black Hole?
The largest planet in the solar system. This planet is made up of gas and has over 60 moons.
What is Jupiter?
This is the only moon with an atmosphere and it rotates around this planet.
What Titan and Saturn?
This is made up of 3 main parts, the Outer Event Horizon, the Inner Event Horizon, and the Singularity. It is caused by the death of a star where gravity is so dense not even light can escape.
What is a Black Hole?
These are often called "shooting stars".
What are meteors?