Earth Science - Chapter 24
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Coatneyacademy on April 3, 2012
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Glencoe 8th grade
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Solar System | the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field |
| Mercury | the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun |
| Venus | the second nearest planet to the sun |
| Earth | the 3rd planet from the sun |
| Mars | the 4th planet from the sun |
| Jupiter | the largest planet and the 5th from the sun |
| Great red spot | a giant, high-pressure continuous storm on Jupiter |
| Saturn | second-largest and sixth planet from the Sun; has a complex ring system, at least 31 moons, and a thick atmosphere made mostly of hydrogen and helium |
| Uranus | seventh planet from the Sun; is large and gaseous, has a distinct bluish-green color, and rotates on an axis nearly parallel to the plane of its orbit |
| Neptune | usually the eighth planet from the Sun; is large and gaseous, has rings that vary in thickness, and is bluish-green in color |
| Pluto | the second smallest planet and the farthest known from the sun |
| Comet | A ball of frozen dust and rock that orbits the sun and has a tail that glows |
| Meteor | a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode |
| Meterorite | a meteoroid that does not completely burn up in the atmosphere and strikes the surface of a moon or planet. |
| Asteriod | a piece of rock or metal made up of material similar to that which formed the planets; mostly found in the asteriod belt between the orbits of mars and jupiter |
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