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What orbits around the Sun?
Planets
What is another name for a shooting star
Meteor
What is heliocentric model?
The theory that the sun is the center of the universe and Earth revolves around it.
Who was Copernicus?
he observed that the planets revolve around the Sun
What are Terrestrial planets made of?
Gases like Carbon dioxide
What is the hottest planet because of the greenhouse effect?
Venus
What is another name for the "Brightness" of a star?
Luminosity
What is the Geocentric Model?
The theory that Earth is the center of the universe.
Who was Kepler?
He used Brahe's astronomy records eventually to prove the heliocenteric model and to calculate the orbital laws.
What are Gaseous planets?
Planets that are made of lighter gases like hydrogen
Which planet has a sideways axis?
Uranus
What is the birthplace of stars?
Nebula
Why does the moon change its appearance over the course of its cycle?
The moon orbits our planets the positions change, meaning that the sun lights up different spaces of the moon.
What are the 2 types of Galaxies?
Spiral and irregular
What is the difference in seasons between the southern and northern Hemispheres?
When one hemisphere is pointed at the sun the other isn't so it is winter or colder there than the hemisphere that is pointed toward the sun
Which planet has a canyon larger than than the grand canyon?
Mars
What forms after the Red giant?
Planetary Nebula
What is the asteroid belt and where is it located?
A Trous- shaped region in the solar system. Its located between the orbits of planets Jupiter and mars.
What is one of the major things that you need for a tide?
Gravity
What is the unit of measurement used for the temperature of the stars
Kelvin degrees
What are the 8 planets of our solar system?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
What kind of star is the sun?
Yellow-dwarf main sequence star.
What landform is created when a meteorite lands on Earth?
Crater
Name for 4 charactersitics for inner planets.
they are closer together, more dense, and shorter revoultion
How does the revolution of the earth around the sun cause seasons?
When the sun is pointed toward one hemisphere the other isn't so one is warm than the other.