front 1 Outer planets characteristics | back 1 -larger than the inner planets -They do not have solid surfaces -Outer planets are mostly called gas giants -Most of the elements in these planets are in a liquid state due to the height pressure and heat inside the planet -The outermost layer of these planets are cold, but the temperature increases as we go further into the planets |
front 2 What is the largest planet in our solar system? | back 2 Jupiter |
front 3 What is Jupiter mainly composed of? | back 3 Hydrogen and helium |
front 4 Why are most of the outer planets colder than the inner ones? | back 4 They are cold due to their great distance from the sun. |
front 5 How many moons does Jupiter have? | back 5 Jupiter has at least 63 moons surrounding it. |
front 6 What kind of atmosphere does Jupiter have? | back 6 Jupiter has a thick atmosphere. |
front 7 How big is Jupiter's red spot? | back 7 Jupiter's red spot is bigger than earth. |
front 8 How much greater is Jupiter's atmospheric pressure to Eath's? | back 8 Jupiter's atmospheric pressure is 2.4 times greater than Earth's. |
front 9 What so scientists think Jupiter's core is made out of? | back 9 They think it's a dense core of rock and iron with a thick mantle of liquid. |
front 10 How many times greater is Jupiter's core compared to Earth's atmospheric pressure. | back 10 It is estimated to be more than 30 million times greater than Earth's atmospheric pressure. |
front 11 What are the moon Galileo discovered called? | back 11 Galilean Moons |
front 12 What is Jupiter's largest moon? | back 12 Ganymede |
front 13 WHich of Jupiter's moon has more than 300 volcanoes? | back 13 Io |
front 14 Which of Jupiter's moons is covered with ice and might have liquid water below the ice, which has potential for life? | back 14 Europa |
front 15 Which moon is Jupiter's second largest moon and has the most craters? | back 15 Callisto |
front 16 Which planet is the second largest planet in our solar system? | back 16 Saturn |
front 17 Does Saturn have a thick atmosphere? | back 17 Yes |
front 18 What elements are Saturn mainly composed of? | back 18 Hydrogen and helium |
front 19 Which planet has an unusual 6 sided cloud pattern? | back 19 Saturn |
front 20 What are Saturn's rings made of? | back 20 They are made of chunks of ice and rocks. |
front 21 How are Saturn's rings kept in place? | back 21 It is kept in place by the gravity of Saturn's moons. |
front 22 What is Saturn's largest moon? | back 22 Titan |
front 23 What is Titan mainly made of? | back 23 Hydrogen and methane |
front 24 What moon has a thick atmosphere? | back 24 Titan |
front 25 How much larger is Uranus compared to Earth? | back 25 Uranus is about 4 times larger than Earth. |
front 26 Why does Uranus have a blue green color? | back 26 It's mainly because of it's methane. |
front 27 Does Uranus have rings? | back 27 Yes |
front 28 How does Uranus rotates? | back 28 It rotates from top to bottom |
front 29 How long does Uranus rotates per day? | back 29 17 hours |
front 30 What do Saturn's five largest moons have? | back 30 They have icy cratered surfaces. They also have lava that flows on their surface. |
front 31 How many moons does Uranus have that we have discovered so far? | back 31 27 moons |
front 32 Why is Neptune blue? | back 32 It is blue due to methane |
front 33 What is Neptune's biggest moon? | back 33 Triton |
front 34 DId Neptune use to have a dark spot? | back 34 Yes |
front 35 How many moons does Neptune have? | back 35 14 moons |
front 36 How does scientist classify asteroids and comets? | back 36 They classify them by their size, shape, composition, and orbits. |
front 37 Asteroid Belt | back 37 a region of asteroids that separate Jupiter and Mars |
front 38 Kuiper Belt | back 38 a region of mostly dwarf planets beyond Neptune's orbit, extending 100 times Earth's distance from the sun. |
front 39 Oort cloud | back 39 a special region of comets, extending more than 1,000 times the distance between Neptune and the sun |
front 40 Dwarf planets | back 40 objects that orbit the sun, and are spherical, but they have other objects in the area of their orbits |
front 41 What were the five dwarf planets scientists identified in 2012? | back 41 Pluto, Eris, MakeMake, Haumea, and Ceres. |
front 42 Comets | back 42 loose collection of ice, dust, and rock with very long narrow eclipse |
front 43 What is the outer layer called of a comet when it gets close to the sun? | back 43 The coma |
front 44 What is the inner core of a comet called? | back 44 the nucleus |
front 45 How long can a comets tail be? | back 45 It can be more than 100 millions km long |
front 46 Asteroids | back 46 Rocky objects too small to be considered dwarf planets |
front 47 How small are asteroids? | back 47 They are less than a km in diameter |
front 48 What are the biggest asteroids? | back 48 Ceres, Pallas, Vesta, and Hygiea |
front 49 Which of Jupiter's moons is covered with ice and might have liquid water below the ice, which has potential for life? | back 49 Europa |
front 50 Meteoroids | back 50 Chunks of rock or metal smaller than asteroids |
front 51 Meteor | back 51 when a meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere and burns up, creating what we call shooting stars |
front 52 Meteorites | back 52 when a meteoroid pass through Earth’s atmosphere and are found on it’s surface, often leaving craters much larger than its actual size |
front 53 When did the Great Space Race happen? | back 53 1957-1970s |
front 54 When did Russia first launch sputnik 1? | back 54 it was launched in 1957 |
front 55 What was Us first satellite called? | back 55 Explorer 1 |
front 56 When was Explorer 1 launched? | back 56 1958 |
front 57 What does NASA stand for? | back 57 National Aeronautics and space administration |
front 58 When was NASA created? | back 58 It was created in 1958 |
front 59 What did NASA do? | back 59 It brought together talented scientists and engineers to solve the technical problems of space flight |
front 60 Who was the first person in space? | back 60 Yuri Gagarin |
front 61 When was Yuri Gagarin sent into space? | back 61 He was sent in 1961 |
front 62 Who was the first American to go into space but did not orbit the Earth? | back 62 Alan Shepard |
front 63 When was Alan Shepard sent into space? | back 63 A month after Russia sent their first man into space |
front 64 Who was the first American to orbit the Earth, which he did it 3 times. | back 64 John Glenn |
front 65 When was John Glenn sent into space? | back 65 In 1962 |
front 66 When was the Apollo program created and who created it? | back 66 It was created in 1961 and John F. Kennedy launched it |
front 67 Who were the first men on the moon? | back 67 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin |
front 68 When did the first man on the moon arrive? | back 68 July 20, 1969 |
front 69 What spacecraft did they enter ty moon on? | back 69 Eagle |
front 70 How many lunar samples did astronauts collect? | back 70 382 lunar samples |
front 71 Who studied the lunar samples? | back 71 Andrea B. Mosie |
front 72 What agency launched an unpioloted space craft, when, and why did they do it? | back 72 The European Space Agency launched the space craft in 2003 to collect data for a lunar map. |
front 73 Space Shuttles | back 73 a space craft that could carry a crew into space, return to earth, and could be used again |
front 74 What are space stations used for? | back 74 Long term observations and experiments |
front 75 What are space probes used for? | back 75 To collect data about the solar system and send it back to earth |
front 76 When did Dr. Ellen Ochoa join NASA? | back 76 She joined in 1991 |
front 77 How many space hours did Dr. Ellen Ochoa log in? | back 77 She logged in more than 900 hours in space |
front 78 What did Dr. Ellen Ochoa invent? | back 78 She invented 3 systems that collect information from images using optical devices |
front 79 Vacuum | back 79 a place that is empty of all matter except for a few atoms and molecules |
front 80 DSN (Deep Space Network) | back 80 collection of powerful antennas that command, track and monitor space crafts at a long distance |
front 81 At DSN how many feet are their large antennas? | back 81 About 230 feet |
front 82 Galaxies | back 82 made of stars, planets, and dust clouds that are bound together by gravity |
front 83 How much stars can a large galaxy hold? | back 83 About a trillion stars |
front 84 How many stars can a small galaxy hold? | back 84 About a few thousand stars |
front 85 Clusters | back 85 a group of thousands of galaxies |
front 86 supercluster | back 86 group of clusters with no mutual galaxy |
front 87 How many light years across is the Milky Way? | back 87 100,000 light years across |
front 88 Local group | back 88 group of approximately 59 other galaxies including the Milky Way |
front 89 Supernova | back 89 death/explosion of a giant star |
front 90 Explanet | back 90 any planet outside our solar system |
front 91 rogue Planet | back 91 a planet that does not orbit a star |
front 92 What is the closest exoplanet to us! | back 92 Proxima Centaurib |