Solar System Flashcards

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What is a revolution?

A

How it revolves around earth

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What dwarf planet used to be a planet?

A

Pluto

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What is the smallest planet?

A

Mercury

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What are the four inner planets?

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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

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What am I describing- reddish loops of gas that project from the surface of the sun like fingers

A

Prominences

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Name the planets in order.

A

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

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What is the largest planet?

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Jupiter

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What am I describing- small dark spots on the sun’s surface

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Sunspots

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What is the saying that helps you remember the planets in order?

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My very educated mother just served us noodles

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What am I describing- explosions of hydrogen gas that occur as sunspot regions connect and release large amounts of energy

A

Solar flares

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What are the 3 layers of the sun’s atmosphere?

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Photosphere, chromosphere, corona

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What does corona mean?

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Crown

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Where is the corona layer(ex. Outer inner or middle)

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Outer

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What does the corona layer look like?

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A halo

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Where is the chromosphere(ex. Outer middle or inner)

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Middle

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Where is the photosphere layer(ex. Outer middle or inner)

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Inner

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Which part of the sun do we see when we look at it?(layer)

A

Photosphere

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What is the center of our solar system?

A

Sun

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What is the theory called when the sun is at the center of the solar system?

A

Heliocentric

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What is the theory called when the earth is at the center of the solar system?

A

Geocentric

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What is the sun made up of?

A

Hydrogen and helium

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What is the first moon phase?

A

New moon

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What is the 2nd moon phase

A

Waxing crescent

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What is the 3rd moon phase

A

First quarter

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What is the 4th moon phase

A

Waxing gibbous

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What is the 5th moon phase

A

Full moon

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What is the 6th moon phase

A

Waning gibbous

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What is the 7th moon phase

A

Third quarter

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What is the 8th moon phase

A

Waning crescent

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How many moon phases are there?

A

8

34
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What half is dark on the waxing crescent

A

Left

35
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What is an oval orbit called?

A

Elipse

36
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What half is dark on the waning crescent phase

A

Right

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What does a new moon look like?

A

Black/all dark

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What half is dark on the waning gibbous phase

A

Right

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What is a rotation?

A

The way it spins on its axis

40
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What half is dark on the waxing gibbous phase

A

Left

41
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What does the sun’s energy come from?

A

Nuclear fusion

42
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What half is dark on the third quarter phase?

A

Right

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What half is dark on the first quarter phase?

A

Left

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What does a new moon look like?

A

White/all light

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What are the four outer planets?

A

Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus