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Solar System JEOPARDY REVIEW
Sun
Planets
100 – What element is
70% of the sun?
hydrogen
100- What shape is a
planet’s orbit around the
sun? elliptical
200 – What’s the
difference between a
solar flare and a
prominence? A
prominence loops
back to the sun’s
surface but a solar
flare does not
300 – Describe the
rotation of the sun. the
sun’s equator rotates
faster than its poles
(the top and the
bottom of the sun)
200 – How is gravity
important to our solar
system? It caused it to
form and it keeps
everything in orbit
around the sun
300 – Name the 4 gas
giants and the 4
terrestrial planets. Gas
giants: Saturn, Jupiter,
Neptune, Uranus;
Terrestrial: Earth,
Mars, Mercury, Venus
400 – What is a
400 – What makes a gas
sunspot? How often is giant planet different
there a peak in
from a terrestrial planet?
sunspot activity? An
Gas giant planets are
area of the sun that is made from gas not
cooler than the
rock/metal; they are
surrounding area – it less dense, cooler, and
peaks every 11 years have rings
500 – Name the 6
500 – What is the order
layers of the sun in
of the formation of the
order, starting with the solar system? Solar
core. Core, radiative
nebula→ protostellar
zone, convective
disk → nuclear fusion
zone, photosphere,
→ sun →
chromosphere,
planetesimals →
corona
planets
Small Bodies
Vocab
100 – Where is the Kuiper
Belt? The Oort Cloud?
Kuiper Belt is past
Neptune’s orbit; Oort
cloud is past that on the
way to the next star
Anything Goes
100 – What is
aphelion? Perihelion?
Aphelion is part of an
orbit closest to the
sun, perihelion is
when its furthest from
sun
st
200 – What is Kepler’s 1
200 – Define parallax.
law of motion? The orbit of When something
a planet around the sun
seems to look like it is
is an ellipse with the sun in a different spot
at one focus
when you look at it
from a different spot
100 – What’s the
difference between
heliocentric and
geocentric? Heliocentric
is sun centered solar
system and geocentric is
Earth at the center
200 – What actually is a
shooting star? A
meteoroid that burns up
in Earth’s atmosphere (a
meteor)
300 – How often can we
see comets passing the
Earth? Not very often – it
is very rare
300 – What is a small
body giving off gas and
dust as it passes close
to the sun? a comet
300 – How old is the solar
system? What force
caused it to form? 4.5
billion years; gravity
400 – Describe a dwarf
planet. A round body that
orbits the sun but its
gravity isn’t strong
enough to clear its orbit
400 – What is an
asteroid? A small
rocky object that
orbits the sun
400 – How does the sun
create energy? Nuclear
fusion – hydrogen bonds
together to form helium
and releases energy
500 – Explain the
difference between
meteoroid, meteor, and
meteorite. Meteoroids are
in space, meteors burn
up in Earth’s
atmosphere, meteorites
make it to Earth’s surface
500 – What is a Kuiper
Belt object? An object
that orbits the sun in
the Kuiper Belt
500 – Which historical
astronomers believed in a
geocentric model of the
solar system? Heliocentric
model? Heliocentric –
Galileo, Copernicus,
Aristarchus; Geocentric
– Ptolemy, Aristotle
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