Chapter 16 Test Review-Solar System

What caused the solar system to form?

An event when the shadow of one body falls on another

the change in the sunlit area of one body as seen form another body

What is the glowing trail that results when a meteroid burns up in earth's atmosphere called?

Why are the inner planets called terrestrial planets?

The outer planet is made of rock and ice

What is one way that gas giants differ from terrestrial planets?

Scientists think that Earth's moon formed

The appearance of a body spinning in a clockwise direction when viewed from Earth

what two opposing forces must stay balanced to keep a nebula from collapsing?

The dust and debris from asteroids and comets found in the space within our solar system are

The process by which the sun produces energy

An artificial body that travels around a larger body

This planet has a great dark spot

A could of gas and dust from which bodies in space are formed

This moon is oddly shaped and may be a captured asteroid

This moon has a very thick atmosphere

This moon is larger than the planet Mercury

what is it when the sunlit fraction of the moon that we can see from earth is getting larger?

One way scientists measure distances in space is by using

This planet has retrograde rotation

The appearance of a body spinning in a counterclockwise direction when viewed from Earth

A body that reaches earth without burning up completely is called