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| ______ Is a cold blue planet: atmosphere contains visible clouds |
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| Earth Centered Model Of The Solar System |
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| Earth and other planets revolve around the sun |
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| Scientists Classify Objects in Space By: |
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| Size, Shapes, Composition, Orbit |
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| Region of the solar system betweeen Mars and Jupiter |
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| Region of the solar system beyond Neptune's orbit |
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| Region of the solar system beyond the kuiper belt |
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| Loose Collections of ice, dust, and small rockey particles whose orbits can be very long and narrow |
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| Clouds of gas and dust that form a fuzzy layer around a comet |
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| Solid inner core of a plannet |
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| Rocky objects; most of which are too numerous to be considered planets and dwarf planets |
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| Streak of light produced when a meteoroid enters the atmosphere of Earth |
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| Meteoroids that pass through the atmosphere and are found on earths surface |
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4 Outer Planets
(Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) |
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| The 4 Outer Planets are much _______ and more _______ than Earth, and they dont have solid surfaces |
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| This disk of small particles of ice and rock |
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| Jupiter is the ______ and the most massive planet |
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| ________ has the most spectacular rings of any planet |
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| _______'s axis of rotation is tilted at an angle of about 90 Degrees from the vertical |
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| One day is the time it takes a planet to rotate on its ____ |
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| Scientists think the solar system formed about how long ago? |
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| Planetismals collided, stuck together, and eventually combined to form all the objects in the______ _________ |
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| Scientists use the __________ _____ to measure distances in the solar system |
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| About 99.5% of the mass of the solar system is contained within the ___ |
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| All but two planetsin the solar system have a natural sattelite or ____ |
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| The four outermost planets in the suns orbit are mostly made up of liquid and ___ |
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| _______, once the ninth planet in the solar system, is now considered a dwarf planet |
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| The solar system began to form as ________ pulled rock, ice, and gas together |
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| The collision ring theory seems best to describe how |
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| At the moons equator, daytime and nighttime temperatures range from |
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| 130 Degrees = -170 Degrees |
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| At 3476 km, the moon's diameter is slightly less than the distance across the ________ _______ |
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| Craters were caused by the impact of ________ |
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