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| Dust and gas held together by gravity |
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| The nebula a solar system comes from |
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| Explain the nebula hypothesis? |
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| The solar nebula through a Supernova began to spiral and form into our Solar System |
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| The protostar that began our sun was formed by the majority of what in our solar nebula? |
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| Describe the Aristotle a.k.a a Ptolemy's model? |
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| The planets in the solar system move around the Earth |
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| Ptolemy's model is what solar system type? |
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| Describe Copernicus's model? |
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| The planets move in different speeds around the sun |
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| What type of model is the copernicus model? |
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| What are the four interplanets of our solar planet? |
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| The innerplanets are also known as? |
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| Terrestrial Planets have what type of surface? |
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| What are the jovian planets? |
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| The gas giant outer planets |
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- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Uranus
- Neptune
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| When mass grows due to matter and density being added by rocks crashing into it |
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| Earth started as a what planet? |
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| What happens when Earth cooled? |
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| Differentation occured , the heavy metals formed the core, light materials formed the mantle, and the leaste dense materials formed the crust. |
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| How was the early Earth atmosphere formed? |
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| Outgassing from volcanoes formed the atmosphere with gasses like methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide, water vapor, and nitrogen. |
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| What changed the make up of the atmosphere? |
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| One ocean theory involving volcanoes is? |
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| Volcanic activity = Water vapor = Oceans |
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| One ocean theory involving comets? |
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| Ice Comets + Earth = Ocean |
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| What is the distance of Mercury from the sun? |
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| What is the distance between Venus and the Sun? |
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| What is the distance between Earth and the Sun? |
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| What is the distance between Mars and the Sun? |
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| What is the diameter of Mercury? |
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| What is the the diameter of Venus? |
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| What is the diameter of Earth? |
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| What is the diameter of Mars? |
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| What is Mercury's Rotation? |
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| What is Venus's rotation? |
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| What is the Earth's rotation? |
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| What is Mercury's Revolution? |
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| What is Venus's revolution? |
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| What is Earth's Revolution? |
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| What are the temperatures of Mercury? |
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| What is the temperature of Venus? |
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| What is the temperature of Earth? |
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| What is Mars's temperature? |
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| What is Mercury's atmosphere? |
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| What is Venus's atmosphere? |
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| Thick cloud cover of sulfuric acid |
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| What is Earth's atmosphere? |
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| What is Mars's atmosphere? |
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- Harsh Landscape
- Heavily Cratered
- No Weather
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- Very Cloudy
- Retrograde spin from east to west motion
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- Intelligent Life
- We have lots of Oceans
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- Mountains
- Volcanoes
- Valleys
- Seasons
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| A massive atmosphere made of H + He, all have rings, have dense cores of liquid hydrogen and methane, a giant planet. |
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| What is outside the Solar System? |
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| The Oort clouds where comets form |
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| What is the distance between Jupiter and the sun? |
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| What is the distance between Saturn and the Sun? |
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| What is Uranus's distance from the Sun? |
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| What is Neptune's distance from the Sun? |
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| What is Pluto's distance from the Sun? |
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| What is Jupiter's diameter? |
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| What is the diameter of Saturn? |
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| What is the diameter of Uranus? |
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| What is the diameter of Neptune? |
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| What is the diameter of Pluto? |
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| What is the rotation of Jupiter? |
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| What is the rotation Uranus? |
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| What is the rotation of Neptune? |
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| What is the rotation of Pluto? |
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| What is the revolution of Jupiter? |
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| What is the revolution of Saturn? |
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| What is the revolution of Uranus? |
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| What is the revolution of Neptune? |
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| What is the revolution of Pluto? |
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| How many moons does Jupiter have? |
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| How many moons does Saturn have? |
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| How many moons does Uranus have? |
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| How many moons does Neptune have? |
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| How many moons does Pluto have? |
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| What is the temperature of Jupiter? |
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| What is the temperature of Saturn? |
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| What is the temperature of Uranus? |
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| What is the temperature of Neptune? |
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| What is the temperature of Pluto? |
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| What additional gases are found in the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune? |
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| What is Pluto's atmosphere made up of? |
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| Largest planet, has a giant red hurricane, bands rotate |
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| Second largest, least dense, complex ring system, rotates second fastest |
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| Rotates on its side, third largest, retrograde |
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| Strongest winds fourth largest planet, has a great storm |
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| Formely the ninth planet, smallest planet, frozen methane, rock, and ice located in the Keiper Belt |
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