Chapter 29 Astronomy Test Review

Which planet has rapid rotation to make alternating cloud types called belts and zones?

When a planet is closest to the sun

Which planet has the longest year?

Glowing streak of light in Earth's atmosphere when a meteoroid burns up

Interplanetary material that enters Earth's atmosphere and collides with the ground.

small, icy body made of ice and rock that has a highly elliptical orbit around the Sun

largest mountain in our solar system on Mars

Who figured out that the geocentric model was wrong by discovering Jupiter's moons.

Which eccentricity value would be a shape that is the most elliptical?

Mars is the most similar planet to Earth.

What is the eighth planet from the sun?

Pluto is not classified as a planet because of its

What are the inner planets made out of?

All planets orbit the Sun in opposite directions.

Which planets appear blue because of the methane in their atmospheres?

Leftover planetesimals that never formed planets

The Sun is one of the ______ of a planet's orbit.

Which planet has a reddish color caused by a high iron content?

average distance from Earth to Sun

Sun centered model of our solar system?

Planets appear to move backwards in the sky from Earth because the inner planets move faster.

The distance all the way across an ellipse.

cloud of gas and dust from which stars and planets are formed

What are the inner planets called?

Kepler's First Law states that each planet orbits elliptically around the Sun.