A small, frozen, icey mass of dust and gas revolving around the sun
100
What do rockets normally carry?
Satellites
100
What is the smallest planet? Is it an inner or outer planet?
Mercury and inner
100
What is gravity.
A pull from on object. Earth pulls objects to its center.
100
What do the planets have in common?
They are all round.
200
What is an asteroid?
A rocky rock and metal, large in size orbiting the sun, around mars and jupiters distance.
200
What does a space probe do? Does it carry humans?
Takes pictures, collects data, gathers information about the solar system. No humans.
200
What are the four largest planets, and are they inner or outer planets?
jupiter, uranus, neptune, saturn and outer planets.
200
Which has more gravity?
Earth or Moon
Earth (larger)
200
What do you need to travel on a long trip to saturn
(1 year)?
Space shuttle, extra fuel, space food (dry food), medicine, space suit, oxygen tanks, exercise machine, cameras...
300
What is a meteor?
A combination of broken parts of comets and meteors, that can be seen from earth. (shooting star)
300
Name the four space transportations?
Space station, space probe, rocket, space shuttle
300
Are the inner planets rocky (terrestrial) or gas?
Rocky (terrestrial)
300
If the sun was gone what would the motion be for the planets. Goes from ellipse to ?? (Ball on String Lab)
A straight Line
300
What would you need for a 3 day space trip?
food, oxygen, fuel,
400
What can be seen from earth at night? Comets, meteors or asteroids?
Meteors
400
What is a space station?
A home for the space crew to do experiments and explore.
400
Is Uranus colder than Jupiter? Why. What is the coldest planet? What is the hottest planet?
Yes because Uranus is further away from the sun than Jupiter. Neptune, Venus
400
FREEE BEE
FREE BEEE
400
If I made a model of saturn thats suppose to be 13290 km to a smaller model like 1.3 cm = 13290km what would the model of the sun be at 892929km =
(*HINT* Where is the decimal, how many places did it move)
89 cm
500
Name the 3 objects that are smaller than planets that orbit space and a fact about each.
Comets = icey, Asteroids= Rocky and Meteors = Shooting stars
Do the inner planets have more than 4 moons? And what makes the moons orbit around the planets?
NO less than 3 moons and GRAVITY!
500
How have things developed over time?
They have been able to increase thier development from when they started. Started with animals into space, then people, started exploring space then someone was able to walk on the moon. It has evolved greatly over time.