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| Major Characteristic of Mercury |
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| Year is 88 Earth-days long |
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| Major Characteristic of Venus |
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| Spins or rotates in the opposite direction (retrograde), clockwise as you look from its north pole. |
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| Only planet that has life |
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| Red planet where a day is 24hours and 37 minutes |
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| Characteristic of Jupiter |
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| Vacuum of Earth ? Sucks in meteors. Biggest planet |
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| Characteristics of Uranus |
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| Has 27 moons, and its axis is tilted on its side 98 degrees |
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| Sun Earth Moon in Spring Tide |
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| Sun Earth Moon in Neap Tide |
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| Spring Tide - describe, how offen |
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higher high tides, lower low tides
twice per month at full and new moon phases |
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| Neap Tide - describe, how often |
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weaker tides because of right angle
twice per month at 1st and 3rd quarter moon phases |
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An object spinning on an its Axis
RotAtion has an A in it for Axis, like a dancer spinning on her Ankle. |
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| One object going around another object, like ring around the rosy. Also called orbiting. |
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| Isaac Newton's Law of Motion |
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Object at rest, says at rest
Object in motion stays in motion
Until another force acts on it |
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| Lunar Eclipse - Draw Sun, Moon, Earth |
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| Solar Eclipse - Draw Sun, Moon, Earth |
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| Gravitation Pull is influenced by: |
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Mass of two objects and distance between objects
(guide says gravity and inertia which is actually what causes revolution or an object to orbit) |
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| Days from new to full moon |
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| Hours for 1 rotation of earth |
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| Days for earth to make 1 revolution |
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| Sun centered universe (Copernicus) |
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| Singular cosmic explosion created universe 14 billion years ago and it is still expanding |
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| Name three kids of galaxies |
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Elliptical
Spiral - Like our Milky Way galaxy
Irregular |
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| How does distance affect gravitational pull? |
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| closer the objects, the stronger the gravity |
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| How does mass affect gravitational pull? |
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| The more massive, the stronger the gravity |
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| Which pulls more on the Sun, Venus or Saturn? |
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| Venus because the closer distance affects gravitational force more than mass does. The force of gravity is proportional to the mass of an object and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the objects. |
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| An object is headed toward earth. What happens if the gravitational pull on that object is greater than its inertia? |
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| It will fall to Earth instead of being sling-shotted by earth. |
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