Formation of the Solar System
The name of the force that causes and object to move in a curved path.
What is centripetal force?
Name the inner planets in order starting from the Sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
Name the outer planets in order beginning with the planet closest to the Sun.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
Pluto is no longer considered a planet because
What is it is smaller than our Moon?
This was the most popular app of the year in 2014.
What is Facebook?
Explain the difference between a heliocentric vs. geocentric model of the solar system.
What is heliocentric is a sun-centered model while geocentric is an earth-centered model?
Describe why a year on Mars is longer than a year on Earth.
What is Mars is located farther away from the Sun than Earth is?
Gas giants have more moons than terrestrial planets due to
What is their larger size gives them a stronger gravitational pull?
Describe the difference between a meteor, meteoroid, and a meteorite.
What is a meteoroid is a rocky body in space.
Meteor is the same rocky body in Earth's atmosphere.
Meteorite has hit Earth's surface.
This number 1 film of 2014 stars a group of intergalactic criminals who must pull together to stop a fanatical warrior with plans to purge the universe. The team would be known as the "protectors of the universe".
HINT: MARVEL
What is Guardians of the Galaxy?
The Law of Universal Gravitation states...
What is the more mass an object has the stronger its gravitational pull?
Explain which planet is the hottest and why.
What is Venus due to its dense atmosphere?
What unit of measurement do astronomers use to measure distances within our solar system?
What is astronomical units?
The spherical shell that surrounds the Sun containing other celestial bodies that stretches to the outer most parts of the solar system.
What is the Oort Cloud?
This iPhone was considered to be brand new.
What is the iPhone 6?
The process in which hydrogen atoms turn into helium. This is how the Sun was formed.
What is nuclear fusion?
Describe how a lack of atmosphere affects temperatures on Mercury.
What is temperatures would have more variation if Mercury had an atmosphere?
Describe the difference between rotation and revolve and what each means for a planet.
What is revolve is going around the Sun which is the planet's year and rotate is spin on its axis which is the planet's day?
What is a moon?
Name this dance.
What is Gangnam Style?
The first step in the formation of the solar system. Explain the process of this step.
What is a solar nebula collapse? A cloud of gas and dust compresses and forms a rotating Proto stellar disc.
What planet would you weigh more on: Mercury or Jupiter and explain why.
What is Jupiter due to a higher level of gravitational force, your weight would increase?
The name of the spacecraft sent in the 1980s that photographed Uranus and Neptune.
What is Voyager 2?
The majority of the asteroids in our solar system are found here
What is the asteroid belt?
Explain what the words "on fleek" mean.
What is extremely good, attractive, or stylish?