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Flashcards by Jenny Johnson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Jenny Johnson
about 5 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Between Mars and Jupiter | asteroids |
| combustion is the same as ________ | burning |
| The tail of this points away from the sun | comet |
| the sun's atmosphere | corona |
| ability to do work | energy |
| splitting atoms | fission |
| the combining of atomic nuclei to form one nucleus | fusion |
| largest planet | Jupiter |
| "red planet" | Mars |
| planet closest to the sun | Mercury |
| core of an atom | nucleus |
| this planet has rings | Saturn |
| this planet was discovered in 1781 | Uranus |
| dwarf planet | Pluto |
| morning and evening star | Venus |
| Uranus's twin sister | Neptune |
| plant cells make sugar | photosynthesis |
| stored solar energy in form of buried vegetation that flourished in sunlight is represented by _________ | coal |
| process by which plants manufacture sugar and release oxygen into the air | photosynthesis |
| the sun's energy is a result of ________ | fusion |
| the position of the sun in the sky determines the ______ of a location | temperature |
| the temperature of a place greatly affects the _______ of that region | weather |
| no atmosphere is on Mercury to produce clouds and rain because the ______ is too low to hold an atmosphere | gravity |
| Venus is located between these two planets | Mercury and Earth |
| Venus has ______ like the Earth's moon | phases |
| Earth is an average distance of ________ from the sun | 150,000,000 km |
| Mars has seasons similar to Earth because its _______ is tilted like Earth's | axis |
| To the naked eye, the planet ________ appears to be a red star | Mars |
| The discoverer of four of Jupiter's moons | Galileo |
| The planet with rings | Saturn |
| In 1781 with a reflecting telescope, Sir William Hershchel discovered this planet | Uranus |
| In 1846 Johann Galle located _________ exactly where Leverrier had predicted it would be | Neptune |
| In our solar system are 2 sets of sister planets and they are _________ | 1. Earth and Venus 2. Uranus and Neptune |
| In 1905 Pervical Lowell predicted where ________ would be found | Pluto |
| Halley's Comet was last seen in what year | 1986 |
| Your weight would be greatest on this planet | Jupiter |
| 2 planets that are closer to the sun than Earth | Mercury and Venus |
| In general, planets revolve around the sun in what directtion? | counterclockwise |
| The moon appears to rise in the ______ | east |
| during the time that the earth makes one complete rotation, the moon covers _______ in its orbit around the earth | 13 degrees |
| the moon rises and sets fifty minutes ______ each day | later |
| The moon takes this many days to rotate on its axis | 27 1/3 |
| The moon takes this many days to make one revolution around earth | 29 1/2 |
| The lunar month, from new moon to new moon is _________ | 29 1/2 days |
| The new moon phase of the moon occurs when the ______ is located between the _______ and the ________ | moon earth sun |
| Eclipses occur when the earth, sun, and moon are in a ________ | straight line |
| when the moon blocks the sun's light, a __________ occurs | solar eclipse |
| 5 benefits of solar energy | 1. light 2. photosynthesis 3. heat 4. fuel 5. weather |
| 5 theories of how the sun produces solar energy | 1. combustion 2. contraction 3. meteor impact 4. radioactive substances 5. carbon cycle |
| The planets in order from the sun | 1. Mercury 2. Venus 3. Earth 4. Mars 5. Jupiter 6. Saturn 7. Uranus 8. Neptune |
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