Reflection: Answer as many as you like (at least 1).
What is something new you learned?
What is something that suprised you?
What questions do you have?
What would you like to learn more about?
Categorize the planets
Earth
Saturn
Neptune
Venus
Uranus
Mars
Jupiter
Mercury
Terrestial
Jovian
Which of the following is true about terrestial planets?
Which planet could have had liquid water and supported life in the past?
Categorize the Jovian Planets
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Gas Giants
Ice Giants
Which of the following is true about the Jovian planets?
What is located between the terrestial planets and Jovian planets?
What contains asteroids, dwarf planets such as Pluto, and comets?
What is considered the edge of the solar system?
How did the geocentric model proposed by the Ancient Greeks describe the solar system?
What did Copernicus' heliocentric model place at the center of the solar system?
What geometric shape did Kepler propose the planets orbited in?
How many foci (focuses) do ellipses have?
The flatter the ellipse, the eccentric it is.
What is always at 1 focus of a planet's orbital ellipse?
When is a planet moving fastest?
The further away from the Sun it is, the longer it takes for a planet to make 1 complete orbit around the Sun.
What are comets made of?
What process transforms solid ice on a comet to gas to produce a coma and tail?
What shape are most comets' orbits?
Where do most asteroids form?
What is the term for a space rock smaller than an asteroid?
Meteors are meteoroids that hit Earth's atmosphere
Meteorites are meteoroids that hit Earth's surface.
What protects Earth from most meteoroids?
When did Earth's history begin?
What gases made up Earth's first atmosphere?
What event created the Moon?
What significant event occurred 3.8 billion years ago?
What did cyanobacteria contribute to Earth's environment?
Which event is known as the Cambrian Explosion?
What caused the mass extinction event 66 million years ago?