Gravity and the Solar System | The Sun | The Terrestrial Planets | The Gas Giants | Small bodies in the Solar System |
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What is the location where the Sun formed?
At the center of the protostellar disk.
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What is the Core?
The layer in the Sun hat produces energy.
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What is the terrestrial planets in order?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars.
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What is a gas giant?
Deep,massive,gas atmospheres, which are made up of mostly of hydrogen and helium.
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What is a dwarf planet?
A celestial body that orbits the sun and is round because of its own gravity.
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What is Gravity?
A force of attraction between objects that is due to their masses and the distances between them.
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What is a sunspot?
Dark areas that form on the surface of the sun.
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What is the Moon
Earths satellite.
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What is Jupiter?
The largest planet in the solar system.
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What is a KBO?
Any of the minor bodies in the Kuiper Belt outside the orbit of Neptune.
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What is when Terrestrial planets formed?
When rocky planetismals collided.
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What is the layers of the sun?
Core, radiative zone, convective zone, photosphere, chromosphere, and corona.
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What is Mars?
Has a surface color of red.
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What is Saturn?
A near-twin to jupiter.
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What is a comet?
a small of ice, rock, and dust that follows a highly elliptical orbit around the sun.
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What is the law of universal gravitation?
The gravity between objects increases as the masses of the objects increase.
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What is a Solar Flare?
An explosive release of energy that can extend outward as far as the sun's outer atmosphere.
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What is Earth?
The planet that supports life.
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What is a planetary ring
A disk of material that circles a planet and consists of orbiting particles.
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What is an asteroid?
A small, irregularly shaped, rocky object that orbits the sun.
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What is the formation of the Solar System in order?
Solar nebula collapses, the sun forms, the planetesimals form, and planets form
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What is nuclear fusion?
The process by which two or more low-mass atomic nuclei fuse to form another, heavier nucleus.
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What is astronomical unit?
The average distance between the sun and earth.
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What is Neptune?
The most distant planet from the sun.
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What is a Meteoroid?
A sand grain-to boulder-sized,sized,rocky body that travels through space.
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