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Planets: Video Note-taking Sheet
Astronomy
Sun
Mercury
Mapping the
Heavens
Fundamental Question:
How long ago does science
Named from ____________
_____________________
_______________________
believe the Sun was born?
_______________________
provided a calendar to tell
_______________________
_______________________
Mercury is the size of the
humans when to _________
_______________________
What is the source of the
__________.
_________ and when to
Sun’s energy? ___________
It has no _______________
______________________.
_________ believed that the
_______________________
______________________.
For whom do the heavens
god, Tsohanoai, carried the
How many million Earth’s
Day temperatures ________
provide a reliable direction
_______ on his back and hid
will fit into the Sun?
metals.
finder? ________________
it behind the west wall of his
_______________________
Night temperatures are as
and _________________.
house at night.
What is the Sun’s surface
________ as liquid nitrogen.
________ years ago, the
temperature? ____________
It takes ______ days to orbit
Chinese made detailed
Japanese believed that the
_______________________
the Sun.
records that are still used
________ was born from a
How long would it take a
today. They predicted
________ shed by the god
passenger jet to go from the
_________ of the _______,
Izanaji.
Sun to the edge of the solar
the positions of the
system? _______________
__________ and
______________________
_________.
Venus
Earth
Moon
Mystery
Named from the Roman
The Earth is about the same
It wasn’t until ______ when
The Moon completes one
goddess of __________.
size as ______________.
the ___________ cosmonaut
orbit of the Earth in just
It is the brightest planet and
On Earth there is _________
Yuri Gagarin __________
over _______ days. We
has been nicknamed the
____ billion years ago the
the ________, did fantasy
never see the _________
________________ Star,
Earth was much like Venus.
begin to become reality.
side of the moon.
________________ Star,
It had immense __________
The _______ is the only
It is a symbol of
________________ Star,
activity shrouded in
extraterrestrial site on which
_________________.
________________ Star.
______________ dioxide
humans have set foot.
A solar eclipse happens
It has a ____________
and ____________ vapor.
In ________, Apollo ____
when _________________
atmosphere. It has an
As the Earth matured, the
took Neil Armstrong and
_______________________
extreme form of the
____________ vapor
Buzz Aldrin on a ______ a
A total eclipse happens once
_______________ effect. It
_____________ and it
___________ mile round
every ______ years.
has colossal _________,
rained. Enough to create the
trip.
Telescopes are limited by
______________ speed
___________ - the
There have been _____
Earth’s ________________
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winds and ____________ of
birthplace of life.
moon landings where
The ____________
burning __________.
The microscopic creatures
__________________
telescope is a telescope in
Lava flows from
began to break down
collected _________
space which was launched
permanently ___________
___________ compounds,
samples, took
in ___________.
______________________.
releasing __________ into
____________, and showed
What country was able to
the atmosphere.
that the moon’s
land a probe on Venus?
Humans had no way to see
___________ is _______ of
_______________________
the beauty of __________
that of the Earth.
How long did the probe last
until we saw it from
The moon has no
on Venus? ______________
____________.
_______________________.
There is no _____________
and no ________________.
Mars
Asteroids
Jupiter
Gravity
It was an ___________
Beyond Mars lies the
Is named after the ________
___________________
astronomer, Giovanni
Asteroid Belt with
of all __________ gods and
while seated under an apple
Schiaparelli, who noticed
_________ of fragments of
is the _____________ planet
tree believed that an apple
the unnaturally straight lines
_________ that are believed
in the solar system.
that fell from the tree to the
on the surface of Mars more
to be left over from the
____________ scientist
Earth was from a force,
than ______ years ago.
______________________
Nicholas Copernicus
which he called
Since _______ it was
______________________.
suspected that the ________,
_______________.
believed that little green
A meteorite is also known
not the ___________ was
All bodies exert this force,
men lived on Mars set to
as a ___________________
the center of the solar
the _________ the body, the
invade the Earth.
__________.
system.
_________ the gravity.
In _______ in Antarctica,
A crater in _________ was
___________ astronomer,
scientists found a chunk of
caused by a boulder ______
Galileo Galilei, studied
Martian ____________
meters across.
Jupiter and its moons and it
In this mass, scientists found
In ________ a meteorite
was their _________ that
fossils of
grazed the atmosphere and if
convinced him that the
__________________.
it would have hit the earth it
_____________ orbited the
Mars is a _________ and
would have exploded with a
__________.
_____________ world
force of five ____________
_____ more moons have
where the temperatures
___________.
been discovered since
rarely rise above
Galileo’s day, making _____
_____________
moons in all.
Mars has ___________ as
The Earth could fit inside
low ____________ in the
Jupiter _________ times.
deep valleys, or locked in
Jupiter has 2 ½ times the
the _______ _________ at
________ of all the other
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the poles.
planets put together.
It has huge
The Great Red Spot is
______________ including
actually the ______ of a
Olympus Mons, _______
__________ that has been
times the size of Mt.
raging for at least _______
______________
years.
The first probe to land on
Jupiter’s core is an inferno
Mars was ripped to pieces
more than ____________
by the ___________ in
degrees Celsius.
______ minutes.
Named after the
_____________ god of
_________, it has a
_____________________
color.
Saturn
Uranus & Neptune & Pluto
The rings of Saturn are
In ____________, William
Uranus is ______________,
Its ____________________
made of ___________.
Hershel, a ___________
a green billiard ball floating
is made up of nitrogen and
Saturn is mostly _________.
teacher, built his own
in Space.
methane gas.
Its density is so low, it could
_________________ and in
Neptune gets its _________
A round trip from Earth
___________ in your bath,
__________ discovered a
color from ______________
would take at least _______
if you had one big enough.
new planet.
gas.
years.
It has ______ moons.
Named after the
Pluto was discovered in
Beyond the edge of our
__________ god of the
_________.
Solar system lies the vast
_________,
It is a small ____________
_________________ of
Uranus and Neptune are
planet.
deep space. It takes sunlight
described as
Named after the
__________ hours to reach
_____________ planets,
_____________ god of
there, but it takes _____
even though they are
_____________ and god of
years to reach the next
_______ times more distant
the
closest star. The furthest
from each other than the
_______________________
known star is _____ billion
Earth is from the Sun.
light years away.