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1
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What is the Solar System?

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everything that orbits the sun

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What are the inner planets composed of?

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Rock (they are smaller)

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3
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List the inner planets

A

MY VERY EAGER MOTHER
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars

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4
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What are the outer planets composed of?

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Gas (giants)
they are the bigger planets

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5
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list the outer planets

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JUST SERVED US NOODLES
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune

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6
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What is the rotation time for mars?

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24 1/2 hours

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7
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What is the rotation time for Jupiter?

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10 hours

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8
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How does Uranus rotate?

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ON ITS SIDE

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9
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1 day on _____ is longer than its year?

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Venus

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10
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How many earth days does it take Venus to rotate?

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243

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11
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How many earth days does it take Venus to orbit?

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225

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12
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What is a comet?

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Described as a dirty snowball (ice and dust)

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13
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What is Solar Wind?

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It is a flow of ions flowing from the sun

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14
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How can solar wind effect a comet?

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It causes the tail of comet to flow back away from the sun

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15
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What is an oort cloud?

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Chunks of ice. Where the comets live.

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16
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What is a meteoroid?

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Rock fragments in space

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17
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What is a meteor?

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“Shooting Star”
-a rock or grain of sand entering our atmosphere.

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18
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What is a meteorite?

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A rock fragment that strikes the earth

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19
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What is mercury?

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It is the smallest planet closest to the sun
NO ATOMOSPHERE
NO MOONS

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20
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What is Venus?

atmosphere?
temp?
size?
rotation direction?
sister planet?
moons?
wind speed?

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-2nd planet closest to the sun—- brightest planet closest to us.
-earths sister planet
-350 km winds
-NO MOONS
-has a and evening star
-Atmosphere = CARBON DIOXIDE
-HOTTEST AVERAGE TEMP
-Rotates counterclockwise

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21
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how do all planets except Venus rotate?

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CLOCKWISE
Venus rotates counterclockwise

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22
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What is Mars known as?
WHY IS THIS?

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THE RED PLANET
-the iron in the soil causes red color

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23
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What is Mars?
surface conditions?
moons?

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-4th planet from the sun
-2 moons PHOBOS & DEIMOS
-has north and south pole
-has largest volcano
strong winds
polar caps

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24
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Who is Percival Lowell?

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He left money to find the planet Pluto
He drew false maps of mars that included canals and Martians

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25
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What is Ceres?

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Largest asteroid/ Dwarf Planet
about the size of Texas

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25
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Where is the asteroid belt?

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Between Mars and Jupiter

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26
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What is Jupiter?
surface conditions?
moons?

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-5th planet from the sun
-1300 times bigger than earth
-LARGEST PLANET
-atmosphere=mostly -hydrogen and helium
-has a great red spot (like swirling hurricane)
-Has 4 moons

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27
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What are the 4 moons of Jupiter? describe them

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  1. IO- active volcanoes-colorful-
  2. Europa- covered with ice- Hot core
  3. Ganymede- largest moon in solar system
  4. Callisto- most heavily cratered moon in solar system,
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28
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who discovered the 4 moons of Jupiter

A

GALILEO

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29
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What is the largest moon in the solar system?

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Ganymede

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30
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What is Saturn?
how many moons which is the largest
what is it known for?

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-6th planet from the sun
-“the ringed planet”
-lots of moons, but the largest is TITIAN

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31
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Describe Saturn’s largest moon? name of it? atmosphere?

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It is called TITAIN
it has an atmosphere
has hydrocarbon lakes

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32
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What is Uranus?

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-7th planet from the sun
-NO ROCK
-consists chiefly of hydrogen and helium

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33
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What is Neptune?
how many moons? what is the most known moon?
atomosphere?

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-8th planet from the sun
-“wizards eye” has a swirling dark spot
-has 14 moons TRITION being the most known

34
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What is triton?

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-A moon of Neptune
-Large moon
-has ice volcanoes that erupt.

35
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What is the Kuiper Belt?
what are some of its objects?

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The Kuiper Belt is a large region out past Neptune’s orbit
It contains rock and ice chunks -Such as Pluto

36
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What is Pluto?

A

DWARF PLANET located in the Kuiper Belt
3 MOONS

37
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What is the largest moon of Pluto?

38
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What is the largest dwarf planet?

39
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How did Pluto get knocked out of being a planet in 2006?

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-Eris (largest dwarf planet) was discovered
-It was bigger than Pluto so it was decided that Pluto could not be considered a planet

40
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What is MakeMake?

A

A dwarf planet almost the size of Pluto

41
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What is Haumea?

A

A dwarf planet

42
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Face of the moon?

A

The moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that it orbits the earth
WE ALWAYS SEE THE SAME FACE

43
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what is the Crecent moon shape?

A

You will see a banana slice

44
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What is the quarter moon shape?

A

you will see half of the face

45
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What is the Gibbous moon?

A

nearly full moon—-between quarter and full

46
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What is the maria?

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The dark areas of the moon, ancient lava flows that have broken up by meteoroid bombardment, seas

47
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What is the sun?
what does it do?

A

average ordinary star
-produces it on light

48
Q

what is the size of the sun?

A

over 1 million times larger than the earth

49
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what is the distance of the sun from the earth?

A

93,000,000

50
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what is the temp. at the surface of the sun?

51
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how many parts of the sun are there?

52
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What is the photosphere?
temperature?

A

surface of the sun
6000K

53
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what is the corona?
temperature?

A

glowing gas cloud only visible during an eclipse, halo 1 million K

54
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What is solar wind?

A

it extends out past the planets

55
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How hot is the core of the sun?

A

15 million kelvin

56
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What is the sun spot cycle length?

57
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what is the sun spot temperature?

A

cooler than surroundings
4500K instead of 6000K

58
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where does the sun rotate faster?

A

at the equator

59
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where does the solar energy reaction come from?

A

conversion of hydrogen to helium

60
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What is the temperature inside the sun?

A

14 million Kelvin

61
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what is a light year?

A

-distance light travels in a year.

62
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what is the speed of light?

63
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What is Proxima Centauri?

A

CLOSEST STAR TO EARTH
4 light years away from earth

64
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what is the Red giant?

A

Large stars with cooler surfaces MASSIVE

65
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What is main sequence?

A

middle ages star OUR SUN

66
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what is a white dwarf?

A

about the size of earth — hotter

67
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what is the next phase of the sun?

68
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Can a heavy star become a supernova?

69
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what is a supernova?

A

exploded star

70
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what is a neutron star?

A

remnant after a supernova explosion, small in size

71
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what is a pulsar?

A

spinning neutron star

72
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What is a BLACK HOLE?

A

burned out star after a supernova explosion-
gravity so strong
light cannot escape it

73
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What is a galaxy?

A

island groups of stars (200 billion galaxies

74
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What is Milky Way?

A

galaxy which our sun belongs to

75
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What is the center in a galaxy

A

massive black hole

76
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Numbers of arms in the milky way?

A

4 main arms that spiral out

77
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distance across the milky way?

A

130,000 light years across, shaped like a fried egg

78
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Number of stars in the milky way?

A

200 billion

79
Q

when does a galaxy rotate?

A

galaxy rotates every 240 million years

80
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what is a nebula

A

gas and dust cloud

81
Q

local group

A

3 dozen in our neighborhood

82
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What is Andromeda?

A

largest galaxy in our local group

Gps 1214 (2 decks)

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