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Observing the Solar System & Life Beyond Earth
The Sun
Inner Planets
Outer Planets
Comets, Asteroids, & Meteors
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2 major models of the solar system and their differences.
What are geocentric (Earth centered) and heliocentric (sun centered)?
100
The sun's 6 layers inside to out. (must be in correct order)
What is core, radiation zone, convection zone, photosphere, chromosphere, and corona?
100
3 characteristics of the inner planets.
What are small, dense, and rocky?
100
4-5 characteristics of outer planets.
What is they are larger, gaseous, cooler outer layers, and have many moons and a set of rings?
100
Where comets originate.
Where is the Kuiper belt or Oort cloud?
200
He further developed the heliocentric model in 1543 after the Greeks.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
200
4 features of the sun.
What are sunspots, solar flares, prominences, and solar wind?
200
Venus' rotation.
What is east to west (clockwise)?
200
This planet rotates top to bottom (north to south).
What is Uranus?
200
Where asteroids revolve.
Where is the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter?
300
Conditions that allow "life as we know it" to exist. (term and conditions)
What are the "Goldilocks Conditions" which include liquid water, suitable temperature range and atmosphere?
300
This process occurs in the core in which hydrogen atoms join together to form helium. This process can only occur under these specific conditions.
What is nuclear fusion? What is extremely high temperature and pressure?
300
Atmosphere is more than 95% CO2?
What is Mars?
300
He discovered these 4 moons of Jupiter.
Who is Galileo and moons= Io, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede?
300
A "shooting star".
What is a meteor?
400
He found that the orbit of each planet is an ellipse.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
400
You see this layer when "looking" at the sun. And this is why.
What is the photosphere because the gases in this layer are thick enough to be visible, so it gives off visible light?
400
Earth's layers (in order) and 80/20 atmosphere.
What are inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust? 80% nitrogen/20% oxygen?
400
Scientists think that this planet may be shrinking.
What is Neptune?
400
Structure of a comet and how the coma and tail are formed.
What is nucleus and coma (head) and tail? What is when a comet gets close enough to the sun, energy in sunlight turn ice into gas, releasing gas and dust, pointing away from the sun?
500
For there to be life on Europa, life-forms might need these adaptations to survive.
What are blubber to keep warm, ability to swim or float, etc?
500
What causes auroras.
What is solar wind because the magnetic energy particles enter in the North & South poles where they create powerful electric currents causing the gas in the atmosphere to glow?
500
Venus' greenhouse effect. (how and affects)
What is because it is closer to the sun than Earth, it receives more solar energy that enters it's atmosphere. The CO2 traps the heat so well that Venus has the hottest surface temperature of all (enough to melt lead)?
500
Why Pluto is not considered a true planet. What it is called today.
What is is has a solid surface, it's very small and dense? What is a planetoid or dwarf planet?
500
Differences between meteorites, meteoroids, and meteors.
What is meteoroids are chunks of rock or dust in space from asteroids or comets, when a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere the friction creates heat and light turning it into a meteor, and if the meteor/meteoroid hits Earth's surface it is a meteorite?