Solar Systen (LAB2)

Question 1

Whats another name for inner planets?

Answer 1

Terrestrial planets

Question 2

What are the inner planets?

Answer 2

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

Question 3

Where is the inner solar system?

Answer 3

Asteroid belt

Question 4

What are the outer planets?

Answer 4

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Question 5

What are the outer solar system planets often called?

Answer 5

Gas giants

Question 6

Where are the outer planets located?

Answer 6

Kuiper bely, beyond neptune

Question 7

Inner planets description.

Answer 7

High density and solid
made of rocks and metals
no rings
small
igneous rock
iron (Fe) filles core

Question 8

Outer planet description.

Answer 8

large
low density
made of gas
Hydrogen (H), Helium (He)
all have rings

Question 9

What gases make up the Sun?

Answer 9

Helium and Hydrogen (held tgt by hydrogen)

Question 10

Non-renewable natural resource.

Answer 10

helium

Question 11

Where does he and h escape?

Answer 11

Our atmosphere

Question 12

What produces He?

Answer 12

Radioactive decay of elements Uranium & Thorium in igneous rock

Question 13

What country produces the most He?

Answer 13

USA

Question 14

What object in the medical world need He to function?

Answer 14

MRI’s

Question 15

Uranite (chemical formula)

Answer 15

UO2

Question 16

Thorianite (chemical formula)

Answer 16

ThO2

Question 17

What are saturns rings made up of?

Answer 17

water ice, when solar system was young

Question 18

How were moons containing ice drown to saturn?

Answer 18

by gravity

Question 19

How old is earth?

Answer 19

4.54 billion years old

Question 20

How old is the solar system?

Answer 20

4,6 billion years old

Question 21

What is the solar system formed by?

Answer 21

gas + dust (SOLAR NEBULA)

Question 22

What is the solar nebula consist of?

Answer 22

He and H

Question 23

What is the flattened disk shape nebula called?

Answer 23

Protoplanetary disk

Question 24

Materials from solar nebula pulled towards center to form…

Answer 24

A protostar

Question 25

Protostar would then become what?

Answer 25

Our sun

Question 26

Solar nebula remaining material form what?

Answer 26

Planetesimals

Question 27

Planetesimals + planetesimals =

Answer 27

protoplanets

Question 28

Protoplanets then became what?

Answer 28

Earth

Question 29

When proto-earth grew what happened to the elements?

Answer 29

heavier elements sank to the core and lighter went towards the surface.

Question 30

Movement of heavier elements (Fe) and lighter elements.

Answer 30

Differentiation

Question 31

Process by which chemical elements of a planetary body accumulate in different area.

Answer 31

Planetary differentiation

Question 32

Greek goddess of sight supplied gold, silver and gems.

Answer 32

Theia

Question 33

Who is the mother of selene?

Answer 33

Theia

Question 34

What is selene the goddess, a personification of?

Answer 34

personification of our moon

Question 35

whats the diameter of the moon?

Answer 35

1/4 of earth (3475km)

Question 36

Distance from earth to moon?

Answer 36

384 400km

Question 37

Whats the size of the eath?

Answer 37

12760km

Question 38

How does the moon orbit the earth?

Answer 38

Elliptical way

Question 39

Apogee? Perigee?

Answer 39

away near

Question 40

Full moon looks smaller, micromoon.

Answer 40

apogee

Question 41

Full moon looks larger, supermoon.

Answer 41

perigee

Question 42

Who and when discovered 4 other moons on jupiter?

Answer 42

Galileo in 1610

Question 43

What is a half of a sphere called?

Answer 43

Hemishpere

Question 44

What is the side of the moon we dont see called?

Answer 44

the "dark side", not always dark

Question 45

Example of active volcanoes

Answer 45

Mount etna

Question 46

Example of dormant volcanoes

Answer 46

Mount Fuji

Question 47

Example of extinct volcanoes

Answer 47

Ben Nevis

Question 48

Whats the main difference between the layers of the moon and earth?

Answer 48

The moon has a "partial melt" part after the outer core.

Question 49

What minerals does the moons mantle contain?

Answer 49

Olivine and Pyroxene

Question 50

What is one of the moons volcanoes?

Answer 50

Dome of Mairan T

Question 51

What is the chemical formula for olivine and what do the all contain?

Answer 51

Mg2SiO4 , all contain SiO4^4-

Question 52

An ion composed of more than one atom.

Answer 52

Polyatomic ion

Question 53

What is the chemical formula for pyroxene and what do the all contain?

Answer 53

XYSi2O6 , all containing Si2O6^4-

Question 54

Larger bowl-shaped canity in ground

Answer 54

craters

Question 55

Space object made of rocks/metal size of dust and small metals

Answer 55

Meteoroids

Question 56

What is a meteoroid refered to when it enter earths atmosphere, slows down and burns up?

Answer 56

Meteo

Question 57

What is the meteo called when it hits the ground?

Answer 57

Meteorite

Question 58

44000kg of meteorites fall on ____ everyday!

Answer 58

earth

Question 59

Frozen leftovers made of dust, rocks and ice orbits sun w/ elliptical orbit

Answer 59

comet

Question 60

The results of the the release of dust + gas?

Answer 60

glowing head + long tail

Question 61

What is helium named after?

Answer 61

Helios (greek God who personifies the sun)

Question 62

What is the greek word for sun?

Answer 62

Helios.

Question 63

What are jupiters rings made up of?

Answer 63

small dust particles

Question 64

What are neptunes rings made up of?

Answer 64

methane ice and ammonia ice

Question 65

What are urans' rings made up of ?

Answer 65

rock boulder

Question 66

What did the collison of theia and protoearth result in?

Answer 66

the moon