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Cornell Notes on Week 12/12/11
Mrs. K. Williams
Topic: Outer planets and other small
objectsVocabulary:
Main Idea/Questions:
1. What are the gas planets
2. Why are the gas giants dense inside?
3. Name impt. Facts about each planet.
a. Jupiter *(Great Red Spot Planet)
b. Saturn*(The planet with rings)
c. Uranus (the blue green planet)
d. Neptune (farthest planet)
4. What are other objects in space?
a. Pluto
b.Gas planet moons
*Students will create a foldable for
their notebook on this. These notes will go
on the inside. Outside folds will include
names of planets and characteristics/titles
of each
Pg.94E
Gas giant- planets made mainly of
hydrogen, helium, and other gases
Ring- wide, flat zone of small particles that
orbit a planet
Notes:
1. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
2. Gravity pulls the material together and
makes the gases very dense.
3.
Jupiter- 5 times farther from the sun
take less than 10 hrs. to turn once.
Takes 12 earth yrs to go once around the
sun.
Red spot on planet is an active storm
lasting atleast 100 yrs. This planet has
ammonia ice clouds
Saturn has large rings made of water ice,
tiny moons.
Has lower density than Jupiter, rotates
every 11 hours, takes 30 Earth years to go
around the Sun.
Uranus has methane gas in its atmosphere,
takes 84 years to revolve the Sun, spins on
one side of its axis; atmosphere made of
methane, ammonia, and water
Neptune has methane ice crystals in
atmosphere; has a storm called the Great
Dark Spot;
4. Pluto, asteroids, comets, meteors,
meteorites.
a. Pluto- smallest of planetary bodies and
smaller than Earth’s moon. Has a thin
atmosphere. Has its own moon, Charon.
Its’orbit changes when compared to other
planets.
b. Name some moons (p.102E)
c. What is an asteroid? (p.103E)
d. What do asteroids have craters? (p.103E)
e.What is a comet? (p.104E)
f. In what part of a comet’s orbit is its tail
the longest? (p.104E)
g. What are the differences btwn meteors
and meteorites? (p.105E)
Review questions:
1. How are Pluto and most moons of the
gas giant planets similar?
2. What do you think Pluto would look like
if its orbit brought it close to the Sun?
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