Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
31 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
What are rocky planets?
|
Other name for inner planets.
|
|
What is Fire strom
|
Firestrom is the erruption that shoots out from sun.
|
|
What are inner planets?
|
First four planents, Mercury,Venus,Earth and Mars.
|
|
Which outer planet is different from other outer planet.Why?
|
Pluto. It is frozen,dark and made out of rock and ice.
|
|
How many planents are there? Name them
|
nine.
|
|
What makes day and night.
|
Earth orbits around the sun, it spins like a top. When one side spins to face the sun , it is day and It is night on the other side of sun
|
|
The light for moon comes from ___________.
|
sun
|
|
Which planet has a life and why?
|
Earth because it is at just right distance from the Sun for plants and animals.
|
|
Moon orbits around ________.
|
planets
|
|
Many of _________ have moon.
|
Planets.
|
|
Which is the largest planet?
|
Jupiter
|
|
When we see tail in comets?
|
Comets come from area that is far way from pluto. When comets gets close to the Sun, some of its icy center melts. The tail which you see behind a comet is made of the gases and dust that fall away from comet when it melts.
|
|
Which is smallest planet?
|
Pluto
|
|
What are comets?
|
Comets are made up of frozen ice and dust that orbits around sun.
|
|
what is Meteorite?
|
When a piece of rock or metal that has hit a planet or moon.
|
|
What are Asteroids?
|
They are the pieces of rock and metal that orbit the sun
|
|
What is Meteoroid?
|
Pieces of rocks or metal floating in the solar system.
|
|
All outer planets except _______ are made up of gases and have rings orbiting them.
|
PLUTO
|
|
What are Outer planets?
|
Jupiter,Saturn,Uranus,Neptune and pluto.
|
|
The Sun is a ___________.
|
Star
|
|
Thre are million of stars in the universe. As compare to them Sun is a small star. But it looks big and Bright. Why?
|
It is the closet star to earth
|
|
What is the other name for outer planets
|
Gas Planets.
|
|
Which planet has most rings?
|
Saturn
|
|
Temperature at the center of the earth is ___________.
|
27 million degree F or
15 million degree C |
|
Sun is in the___________ of the Solar system
|
Center
|
|
What are these rings around planents.
|
Rings are pieces of rock, ice and dust circling around planet.
|
|
what is solar system
|
Solar System is the group of planets including earth which orbits around the sun, many moons, asteroids, coments and meteroids.
|
|
Name the scientist who found that earth revolves around the sun.
|
Nicolaus Copernicus
|
|
How many earths could fit inside the sun.
|
more than 1 million
|
|
First spacecraft
|
Apollo II
|
|
Instrument that make far away objects seem closer.
|
Telescope
|