The Solar System
The galaxy our solar system is in
What is The Milky way
What the planets orbit
What is the sun?
The imaginary line the Earth rotates on.
What is an axis?
The center of the sun.
What is the core?
Dirty space snowball made of ice and dust.
What is a comet?
The generational star level of our sun.
What is third generational?
The two types/categories of planets in our solar system.
What is terrestrial and gas giants?
The path a planet follows as it travels around the sun.
What is an orbit?
What is a cosmic year?
Nickname for a meteor.
What is a shooting star?
How long ago our solar system began forming.
What is 5 billion years (or 4.6 billion years)
The category of planets that has many moons.
What is a gas planet?
Gives the moon the illusion of not spinning (rotating) when it actually is.
What is Synchronous Rotation?
A stream of charged particles produced by the Corona.
What is solar wind?
Space between Mars and Jupiter where asteroids mostly orbit our sun.
What is the asteroid belt?
The most accepted theory of how our solar system was formed.
What is Nebular Hypothesis?
A planet with a high density and a low mass.
What is Earth? (also accepted: Terrestrial planet, Mercury, Venus, Mars)
Theory that stated all celestial bodies orbited the Earth.
What is Ptolemy's theory? (Geocentric theory also accepted
The joining of hydrogen atoms to form helium.
What is nuclear fusion?
Rocky leftovers from the formation of our planets.
What is an asteroid?
The process of how the planets in our solar system formed.
What is accretion?
Must have mostly cleared it's orbital debris.
What is a planet?
Length of time it takes Earth to revolve around the sun.
What is 365 days? (365.25 also accepted)
The layer of the sun's atmosphere that has a reddish glow?
What is chromosphere?
Broken off crumbs of comets. (Tiny asteroids)
What is a meteoroid?