Discovering Mars segment 1-3 Flashcards
Scientists who study the sun,stars,and planets
Astronomers
A devise used to view things that are far away
Telescope
Hollow areas or holes, often shaped like a bowl
Craters
The sun and planets and other bodies that orbit it
Solar system
Related to outer space
Cosmic
The pull of the Earth on an object
Gravity
To provide what is needed to live
Sustain
The mixture of gases around a planet
Atmosphere
Something that is shaped like a ball
Sphere
The points on which a planet rotates
Poles
they have decided something is true after thinking carefully about it
Conclusion
The area nearby
Range
The take-over of a place by force
Conquest
The widest part of something that is shaped like a circle
Diameter
Enormous; extremely large
Mammoth