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The Solar System

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  • celestial body
    naturally made object outside the earths atmosphere
  • What is a helocentric solar system
    Sun in the middle of the solar system
  • Venus is the (hottest/coldest) planet in the Solar System
    Hottest
  • small rocky body in space
    asteroid
  • The (Seventh/Eighth) planet from the sun is Uranus.
    Seventh
  • The most beautiful planet with rings is _______________.
    Saturn
  • a celestial body that generates own light and heat and consists of a mass of gas held together by its own mass
    star
  • galaxy
    a large system of stars held together by their gravity
  • The planet known as the Red Planet is ____________
    Mars
  • Mercury is the (farthest/closest) planet from the sun
    Closest
  • The biggest planet is _____________.
    Jupiter
  • copernicus came up with the idea of helocentric
    True
  • The closest planet to the Sun is _________
    Mercury
  • _________ is considered Neptune's twin.
    Uranus
  • There are ________ planets in the Solar System
    Eight
  • natural satellite of a planet
    moon
  • solar system
    a group of planets asteroids comets and other celestial bodies that are in orbit around a star
  • ptolemy came up with the idea of geocentric
    TRUE
  • ____________ is covered by 70% water.
    Earth
  • mars is the what number planet from the sun
    Fourth
  • Neptune is the (farthest/closest) planet from the sun
    Farthest
  • a celestial body that is in orbit of a star
    planet
  • What is a geocentric solar system
    Earth in the center
  • The planet we live on is the is what number planet  from the sun
    Third
  • natural satellite of a planet
    moon
  • Astronomy definition
    the science that deals with the universe beyond the earths atmosphere.
  • a dusty snowball that orbit a star
    comets
  • The planet which is almost the size as Earth is ____________
    Venus
  • The (biggest/smallest) planet in the Solar System is Jupiter
    Biggest
  • satellite
    an object orbiting a celestial body of mass
  • (DEFINITION) A galaxy is
    a large system of stars held together by gravity.
  • what tool did Galileo Gallilei use to find out so much about the universe
    telescope
  • The farthest known planet from the Sun is ___________
    Neptune