Solar System vocab Flashcards
Nebula
an interstellar cloud of dust
Solar Nebula
what our solar system was a long time ago
Nuclear Fusion
burning hydrogen to make mass amounts of energy turning it into helium
Sunspot
areas of decreased surface temperature
Terrestrial Planets
the inner planets closest to the sun
Prograde Rotation
rotating in the same direction as everything else
Retrograde Rotation
rotating counterclockwise
Gas Giant
a planet made up of gas
Satellite
an object that obits something else
New Moon
the new lunar phase
Waxing Crescent
It’s a setting moon, due to follow the sun below the western horizon.
1st Quarter Moon
half moon
Waxing Gibbous
semicircle shape of the moon
full moon
when you can see the moon full
waning gibbous
transits the median after midnight
last quarter moon
half moon
waning crescent
crescent moon
Solar Eclipse
when the earth is aligned with the moon and no light can get to the moon
lunar eclipse
when the sun moon and earth are very closely aligned
Comet
a ball of ice in space
Asteroid
a big rock in space
Asteroid Belt
alot of big rocks orbiting around our sun very fr away
Meteoroid
a big rock from space that got close earths atmosphere
Meteorite
a small rock from space that reached earths atmosphere
Meteor
a slightly bigger rock from space
