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Drew Genuit-Solar System
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Astronomy
7th Grade
02/04/2013

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who lived earlier Galileo or Copernicus
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Copernicus
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Mars
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Nicknamed the red planet because of the iron oxide in the soil.
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Jupiter
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The lageset planet in the solar system. Has the largest moon.
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Saturn
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Has rings, and is the least dense.
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Mars
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Has two moons.
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True or false: Venus has the hottest surface temperature .
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True
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True or false: the red spot is considered a storm
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Tue
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Uranus
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Is blue because of methane gas and is tilted on its axis.
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Which planet other that earth has ice caps
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Mars
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Earth
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has one moon, is covered 70% with water
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Neptune
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Blue because of methane, has 13 moons, furthest from the sun
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Mercury
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Smallest, and closest to the sun no moons
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Oort Cloud
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a cloud past pluto that is full of comets
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did geocentrism come before heliocentrism
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Yes heliocentrism came after
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heliocentrism
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the Sun is the stationary center of the solar system
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geocentrism
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the Earth is the center of the solar system
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Which two people defied the church's beleifs
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Galileo and Cpernicus
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Comets
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space objects composed of rock particles,frozen water, methane and ammonia
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A comet consists of:
(A)Membrane, cloud, tail
(B)Nucleous, center, and tail
(C)Nucleous, tail, coma
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(A)
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Meteoriod
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parts of comets or asteroids that float around in space
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Meteor
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"shooting star"
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Meteorite
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meteoroid that hits earth
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Asteroids
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planet like material in space
Found in the Asteroid belt
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Asteroid belt
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Found in between Mars and Jupiter
The belt may have come from a planet that never formed, or a planet hit by a meteorite or comet
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Ceres
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largest asteroid
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Pluto
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A dwarf planet that used to be the 9th planet
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Eris
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near pluto
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Halley's Comet
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A famous comet that has an elliptical orbit and is seen every 76 years
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When the Solar system formed how much percent of the nebula formed the planets
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1%
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Io
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A moon of jupiter is volcanic
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