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37 Cards in this Set
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What is A LARGE NUMBER of meteors entering and burning up in the atmosphere.
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Meteor Shower
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What are the Outer Planets?
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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
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What is a solid, rocklike mass that revolves around the sun; most are found BETWEEN THE ORBINTS OF MARS AND JUPITER.
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Asteroid
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What is a mass of ROCK, ICE, DUST, and gas TRAVELING AROUND THE SUN, usually in a highly eccentric orbit.
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Comet
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What is THE LIGHT made by a meteoroid as it passes through Earth's atmosphere.
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Meteor
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What is the DWARF PLANET discoverred by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, which was RECLASSIFIED as of 7/2006.
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Pluto
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What are the Inner Planets?
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indludes the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
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What is the part of a large METEOROID that survives its trip through the atmosphere and STRIKES EARTH'S surface.
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Meteorite
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What is the correct order of the Planets?
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Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune
My Very Excited Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas (back when Pluto was a planet!) |
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What factors determine how long a planets 'day' lasts?
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How long it takes to make a complete rotation on its axis.
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What factors determine how long a planets "year" lasts?
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How long it takes to orbit the sun.
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What factors determine how long a planets 'day' lasts?
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How long it takes to make a complete rotation on its axis.
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Mercury as more impact craters than earth because...
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it has no atmosphere.
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What factors determine how long a planets "year" lasts?
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How long it takes to orbit the sun.
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Mercury as more impact craters than earth because...
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it has no atmosphere.
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2 planets that radiate more energy back into space than they receive from the sun are...
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Jupiter and Saturn
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Which planet is considered the sideways planet?
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Uranus
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2 planets that radiate more energy back into space than they receive from the sun are...
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Jupiter and Saturn
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Which planet is considered the sideways planet?
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Uranus
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The largest moon in the solar system is...
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Ganymede
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Which planet can never be seen from Earth at midnight?
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Venus
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Halley's comet returns to the inner solar system every ____ years.
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76
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What is the hottest planet in the solar system? and why?
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Mercury, because it is closest to the sun.
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Which planets have ring systems?
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the Jovian planets
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Which planet was discovered after astronomers predicted its position mathematically?
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Neptune
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What is the most accepted theory of how the solar system formed?
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The Big Bang Theory
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Ther largest known volcano in the solar system is located on which planet?
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Mars and it is called Olympus Mons (Mount Olympus).
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What are the characteristics of a Jovian/outer planet?
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*No solid surface
*Have layers of gas *Composed mainly of light elements |
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What are the characteristics of a Terrestrial/inner planet?
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*Rocky crusts
*Dense mantle layers *Very dense cores |
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Who is Clyde Tombaugh, and what did he discover in 1930?
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Pluto
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How is Clyde Tombaugh's discovery now classified?
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A dwarf planet
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What planet has the lowest density?
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Saturn
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What is the Martian planet?
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Mars!
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Where have human set foot, within our solar system?
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On the Earth's moon!
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What is a planetary satellite?
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a moon
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Why is Venus so hot?
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Because carbon dioxide in the atmosphere traps the heat on the surface like a greenhouse.
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What are the other names for the Inner planets? the Outer planets?
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Terrestrial (Inner)
Jovian (Outer) |
