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.
100
What is the Core?
The layer in the Sun hat produces energy.
100
What is the terrestrial planets in order?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars.
100
What is a gas giant?
Deep,massive,gas atmospheres, which are made up of mostly of hydrogen and helium.
100
What is a dwarf planet?
A celestial body that orbits the sun and is round because of its own gravity.
200
What is Gravity?
A force of attraction between objects that is due to their masses and the distances between them.
200
What is a sunspot?
Dark areas that form on the surface of the sun.
200
What is the Moon
Earths satellite.
200
What is Jupiter?
The largest planet in the solar system.
200
What is a KBO?
Any of the minor bodies in the Kuiper Belt outside the orbit of Neptune.
300
What is when Terrestrial planets formed?
When rocky planetismals collided.
300
What is the layers of the sun?
Core, radiative zone, convective zone, photosphere, chromosphere, and corona.
300
What is Mars?
Has a surface color of red.
300
What is Saturn?
A near-twin to jupiter.
300
What is a comet?
a small of ice, rock, and dust that follows a highly elliptical orbit around the sun.
400
What is the law of universal gravitation?
The gravity between objects increases as the masses of the objects increase.
400
What is a Solar Flare?
An explosive release of energy that can extend outward as far as the sun's outer atmosphere.
400
What is Earth?
The planet that supports life.
400
What is a planetary ring
A disk of material that circles a planet and consists of orbiting particles.
400
What is an asteroid?
A small, irregularly shaped, rocky object that orbits the sun.
800
What is the formation of the Solar System in order?
Solar nebula collapses, the sun forms, the planetesimals form, and planets form
800
What is nuclear fusion?
The process by which two or more low-mass atomic nuclei fuse to form another, heavier nucleus.
800
What is astronomical unit?
The average distance between the sun and earth.
800
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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