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Joby Harvey Solar System
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Astronomy
7th Grade
02/04/2013

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Mars
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Nicknamed the "red planet"
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Jupiter
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Largest planet in the solar system
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Mars
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Has two moons
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Saturn
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Is known for its rings
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Venus
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Has the hottest surface temperature because of its thick atmosphere
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Jupiter
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Has the red spot
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Earth
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70% of it is covered with water
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Mars
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Other than Earth, what planet has ice caps
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Uranus
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Its axis of rotation is tilted on its side
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Saturn
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Least dense planet
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Neptune
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Has 13 moons
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Mercury
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The smallest planet
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Saturn
Definition
Titan is one of its moons
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Venus
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Similar to Earth in size
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Saturn
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Second largest planet
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Uranus
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Has 27 moons
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Jupiter
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Has the largest moon in the solar system
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Mars
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Has the largest volcano in the solar system
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Earth
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Has one moon
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Neptune
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Farthest planet from the Sun
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Mercury
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Closest planet to the Sun
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Uranus and Neptune
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Blue color of these two planets due to methane gas
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Heliocentrism
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Having the Sun as the center (proposed by Copernicus)
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Geocentrism
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Having the Earth as the center
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Copernicus
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Who lived earlier Copernicus or Galileo
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Galileo
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Who was on house arrest for his views on the solar system Galileo or Copernicus
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Copernicus
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Who didn't share his views on the solar system until on his deathbed Galileo or Copernicus
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Ceres
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Largest asteroid
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Pluto
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Used to the 9th planet
- has one moon
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Eris
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Near Pluto
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Meteoroid
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Parts of comets or asteroids, float arround in space
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Merteor
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"shooting star"
- meteoroid that burns up entering atmosphere
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Meteorite
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Meteoroid that hits planet surface
- big ones make craters
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Solar System
Definition
Planets and objects that orbit the Sun
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Comets
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Space objects composed of rock particles, frozen water, methane, ammonia
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Hayley's Comet
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Most famous comet
- seen every 76 years
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Oort Cloud
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A cloud of billions of comets surrounding the Solar System
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Asteroid
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A piece of rock that is the same material that formed the planets
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Asteroid Belt
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Located between Mars and Jupiter
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Coma
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Cloud surrounding the comet's necleus
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Nucleus
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Main center of the comet
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Dust Trail
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Trail of the comet's fragments
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Nebula
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Large cloud of gas and dust that contracts under gravitational force and breaks apart into smaller pieces, each of which collapse to form a star
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Copernicus
Definition
Who said that planets travel in orbits?
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Kepler
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Who said that planets travel at different speeds and travel in elliptical orbits
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