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| Solar System | Our star and the planets |
| Sol | Name of our Star |
| Mercury | first planet from the sun |
| Venus | second planet from the sun |
| Earth | third planet from the sun |
| Mars | fourth planet from the sun |
| Jupiter | 5th planet, 1st Jovian planet |
| Saturn | Last planet you can see w/o telescope |
| Uranus | seventh major planet from the sun |
| Neptune | eighth major planet from the sun |
| Pluto | 2nd dwarf planet from the sun |
| Mercury | planet that is shrinking |
| Mercury | planet that has scarps |
| scarps | giant cliffs found all over Mercury |
| Mercury | fastest orbiting planet |
| Venus | Thickest terrestrial planet atmosphere |
| terrestrial | planet similar to Earth |
| jovian | planet similar to Jupiter |
| Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars | Terrestrial planets |
| Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune | Jovian planets |
| Venus | has Maxwell Montes on it. (Giant Mountain) |
| Venus | appears to have continents |
| corona | circular raised patches on Venus's surface |
| Maxwell Montes | Tallest mountain in the solar system |
| Greenhouse effect | How Venus traps heat around itself |
| Venus | hottest planet in the solar system |
| Venus | has retrograde rotation |
| Venus | Goes around the sun faster than it spins |
| Venus | has 2 days for every 3 years. |
| Earth Moon | Double planet to some astronomers |
| Terra | astronomical name of Earth |
| Luna | astronomical name of the moon |
| maria | Dark lava seas on the moon |
| highlands | mountain areas on the moon |
| Mercury | Messenger spacecraft in orbit now! |
| Venus | Sulfuric acid rainstorms on it |
| Moon | Only place people have gone to |
| Mars | Has the largest volcanoes |
| Mars | half the size of Earth |
| Mars | Has the largest canyon, Valle Marinus |
| Mars | Appears to have had water |
| Asteriod Belt | Found at 2.8 au |
| Jupiter | Largest planet |
| Great Red Spot | Hurricane observed for 300 yrs |
| Jupiter | Hit frequently by comets! |
| Saturn | Ringed planet |
| Jupiter | has 63 moons |
| Jupiter | Has 4 very large moons |
| Ganymede | Largest Jovian moon, larger than Mercury |
| Callisto | battered moon of Jupiter |
| Io | volcanically active moon of Jupiter |
| Europa | Ice moon of Jupiter! |
| Saturn | Has at least 60 moons |
| Saturn | Has Titan as it's moon |
| Titan | Moon of Saturn that has a Nitrogen Atmosphere |
| Uranus | planet thrown on it's side |
| Uranus | Planet with Dark Rings |
| Neptune | 17 times bigger than Earth |
| Neptune | Planet with exotic moons |
| Pluto | Orbit crosses Neptune |
| cometisimals | Frozen icebergs in space |
| Planetisimals | Rocks and |
| Great Dark Spot | Cyclonic storm on Neptune! |
| Pluto | first dwarf planet in Kuiper belt |
| Uranus | Has very strange moons |
| Neptune | Has partial rings |
| Jupiter | Has a faint ring of sulfur |
| Jupiter | Has the most moons, 67 so far! |
| Ceres | 1st dwarf planet from the sun |
| Eris | 3rd dwarf planet from the sun |
| The Asteroid belt | found between Mars and Jupiter |
| The Asteroid belt | around 2.5-4 AU from the sun |
| The Kuiper belt | found 30-50 Au out |
| The Kuiper belt | Second asteroid belt |
| The Kuiper belt | found beyond Neptune |
| Dwarf Plants | are small and round |
| Dwarf planets | still have material near them in orbit |
| Sedna | possible dwarf planet |
| Quaoar | possible dwarf planet |
| Haumae | "ellipsoid" shaped dwarf Planet |
| Makemake | Dwarf Pl without moons in Kuiper belt |
| Ceres | Found in "The" Asteroid belt |
| Pluto | In Kuiper belt |
| Pluto | most mooned dwarf planet... |
| Eris | biggest dwarf planet |
| Eris | farthest dwarf planet |
| Oort Cloud | where comets come from |
| Oort Cloud | last part of the Solar System |
| Telescope | used by Galileo to view heavens |
| geocentric | view of SS that has earth at center |
| heliocentric | view of SS that has sun at center |
| parallax | apparent shift of position between 2 points |
| Aristotle | developed parallax concepts |
| Aristarchus | came up with first heliocentric model |
| Ptolemy | wrote the Almagest |
| Ptolemy | established the geocentric view |
| Copernicus | Established the heliocentric view |
| Kepler | established the 3 laws of planet motion |
| Kepler | proved planets orbit in elipses |
| Keplers first law | proved elipitical orbits of planets |
| Keplers second law | planets move fastest closest to sun |
| Keplers third law | distance of planets proportional to orbit |
| Galileo | used scientific method on planets |
| Spring tides | when moon/Sun cause high tides |
| Spring tides | moon/sun lined up gravitationally |
| Neap tides | low tides |
| neap tides | moon at 90' angle to sun |
| Lunar eclipse | moon in Earth's shadow |
| Solar Eclipse | moon blocks sunlight briefly |
| Umbra | "Full Shadow" |
| Penumbra | "partial shadow" |
| Waning | less moon nightly |
| Waxing | more moon nightly |
| first quarter moon | 1 wk after New Moon |
| New Moon | no light at all |
| Full Moon | two weeks after new moon |
| Final quarter moon | three weeks after new moon |
| synoptic month | 29.5 day full moon to full moon |
| Lithosphere | solid part of Earth (Continents) |
| Hydrosphere | water part of Earth (Oceans) |
| Atmosphere | Gaseous part of Earth (air) |
| Cryosphere | Frozen part of Earth (icecaps) |
| Biosphere | living part of Earth |
