How did distance from the sun affect the size and composition of the planets?

What kinds of objects are in the solar system? Summarize the types of space objects that make up the solar system and give at least one example of each.

The following table gives the length of the year, y in Earth-days for three planets, and the mean distance, d, in miles. of these planets from the sun.

a. Find an equation that gives $y$ in terms of $d$.

b. Use your equation to predict the distance of Earth from the sun.

A planet in our solar system is located far from the sun. Describe the size and composition of this planet.

How do the terrestrial planets differ from the Jovian planets?

Compare and contrast a meteoroid, meteor, and meteorite.

What do you think would happen if Earth passed through the tail of a comet?

How did Earth's oceans form?

Given current spacecraft technology, which of the objects 1. sun (nearest star) (8.3 light-minutes) 2. Proxima Centauri (nearest star to sun) (4 .3 light- years) 3. center of Milky Way galaxy (25,000 light-years) 4. Andromeda galaxy (nearest large galaxy) (2 .5 million light-years) do you think it would be possible for you to travel to in your lifetime?

Why are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars called inner planets?

Describe the locations of the sun, moon, and Earth during a solar eclipse and during a lunar eclipse.

What types of evidence did Alfred Wegener use to support his theory of continental drift?

In what ways do the interactions between Earth and its moon influence the Earth-moon system? If Earth did not have a moon, would the atmosphere, hydrosphere, solid Earth, and biosphere be any different? Explain.

What are the stages that formed the moon.