The Sun
The Sun produces light in a process know as
Nuclear Fusion
Radio waves have ___________ wavelengths than X-rays.
Longer
Mercury has many craters because
the lack of an atmosphere and old age
A supernove is the explosion of a dying? Be specific
High Mass Star
Rocks that enter our atmosphere and actually hit Earth are called
Meteorites
The outer most layer of the Sun
Corona
Visible light can be divide into color of different wavelengths called the color
Spectrum
These smaller object are round but don't clear their orbits.
Dwarf Planet
When forming a new start a nebula collaspes to form a
protostar
This is the galaxy we live in.
Milky Way.
It takes about this many years for energy to move through the Radiative Zone of the sun.
1 Million years
How many km in a light year? Be Specific
9.46 trillion km
What are two characteristics that Venus shares with earth
Size and Density
What is the Big Bang Theory? Give one piece of evidence to support it.
The idea that the universe began as just a single point.
The measured abundances of elements, the observed expansion of space
This is the hottest and the brightest planet in our solar system. Thick clouds trap the heat close to this planet.
Venus
An area of the sun that are cooler than the area around them
Sunspot
This is a moon of Saturn that is covered in ice and has hypothermal vents on the bottom of its liquid water oceans.
Enceladus
This is a giant sphere area of space on the edge of the solar system that contains billions or maybe trillions of comets.
Oort Cloud
The 2 properties used to classify stars on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
brightness and temperature
Daily Double:
Name 2 probles that went to different locations and one thing learned from each of them.
Answers will vary
Double points if they are correct!
A large loop of plasma and magnetic field that extends out from the sun in a loop shape
Prominence
Telescopes work by collecting and focusing different forms of
Electromagentic Radiation
This planet's moon has Methane lakes and liquid water oceans under an icy sheet.
Saturn
This Astronomer discover that all galaxies are moving away from Earth and from each other, and the farther away the galaxy is the faster it is moving?
Edwin Hubble
Name 4 Things the Inner planets all have in common
Rocky, Smaller, Short orbits, No Rings, slow spinning Answers May vary