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56 Cards in this Set
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What are the inner planets in order from the sun? |
Mercury, Venus, earth, and Mars what plan |
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What planets have rocky surfaces? |
All of the inner planets |
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What planet is 70% covered with water? |
Earth |
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What planet rotates in the opposite direction from most other planets and moons? |
Venus |
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What planet is called the "red planets" because of the color of the dust? |
Mars |
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What planets have at least one moon? |
All of the inner planets |
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Which planets are similar to each other in size, density, and internal structure? |
Earth and Venus |
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What planet has almost no atmosphere? |
Mercury |
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What planet's atmosphere is so heavy and thick that it would crush a human? |
Venus |
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Which planets have a tilted axis that causes seasons? |
Earth and Mars |
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Which planet's atmosphere has low air pressure and is mostly carbon dioxide? |
Mars is made of 95% carbon dioxide |
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Terrestrial planets |
Inner planets |
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Green house effect |
The trapping of heat in a planet's atmosphere |
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What are the outer planets in order from the sun? |
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune |
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Which planets are the gas giants? |
All outer planets |
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Differences between Pluto and gas giants |
Pluto has not cleared its orbital pathway and is in the Kuiper belt |
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Why doesn't the gas on a gas giant escape into space, as it Jason Mercury? |
The gravity is pulling it in |
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What object in the solar system has a composition similar to that of the gas giants? |
The sun |
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What planet is the largest planet to revolve around the sun? |
Jupiter |
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What are Saturn's rings made out of? |
Dust, ice, and rocks |
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How did astronomers know where to look to discover Neptune? |
A mathematical prediction |
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Gas giant |
Don't have solid surfaces All outer planets |
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Ring |
A thin disk of small ice and rock particles surround a planet |
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Asteroid vs meteoroid |
Meteoroids are dust and rock that are smaller than an asteroid |
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Asteroid |
Rocky abject a that are too small to be planets |
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Meteor |
When a meteoroid enters earths atmosphere, and burns up and produces light |
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Comet |
A chunk of ice and dust whose orbit is usually a long and narrow ellipse |
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Meteorite |
When a meteoroid hits Earth's surface |
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Asteroid |
A rocky object that revolves around the sun between 10 and 15 feet |
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Meteoroid |
A chunk of rock or dust in space that is small than 10 feet in diameter |
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Asteroid belt |
The region of the solar system between the orbits of mars and Jupiter |
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Coma |
Clouds of gas and dust on a comet form a fuzzy outer layer |
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Oort Cloud |
A spherical region that defines the outer limit of our solar system |
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Kuiper belt |
A doughnut shaped region that begins outside near Neptune's orbit |
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Red giant or supergiant |
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Location and movement of an asteroid |
Revolve around the sun Asteroid belt Kuiper belt |
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Where fusion begins |
B |
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Part of a nebula |
A |
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White dwarf, neutron star, or black hole |
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The stage the sun is in |
C |
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How a star exists depends on its... |
Mass |
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Pulsar |
Appears to emit pulses of radio waves |
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White dwarf |
What a medium mass star becomes at the end of its life |
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Red giant or supergiant |
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Where fusion begins |
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Part of a nebula |
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White dwarf, neutron star, or black hole |
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The stage the sun is in |
C |
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Black hole |
Exerts such a strong gravitational pull that no electromagnetic radiation can escape |
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Meteoroids and location and movement |
A chunk of rock or dust on space Collide with objects Asteroid belt Kuiper belt Oort Cloud |
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What causes a meteoroid to become a meteorite? |
A meteoroid become a meteorite when it comes in contact with earth's ground |
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Parts of a comet: head |
The coma |
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Parts of a comet: coma |
He outer layer of a comet |
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Parts of a comet: nucleus |
The rock |
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Parts of a comet: the tail |
Is the light |
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How can you tell a comet from a meteor? |
A comet lasts longer |
