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Earth and the Solar System

You can go in any order you like. This packet is due on


canvas by Friday.

1) Explain what you believe a shooting star is. Is it


really a star? Use prior knowledge or do a little online
research for ideas to write about 3-5 sentences
below.
Shooting stars, or meteors, are caused by tiny specks of
dust from space. These particles burn up 65 to 135 km
above Earth's surface as they plunge at terrific speeds into
the upper atmosphere, making the air glow as they pass.

2) Complete the questions below after watching the solar system video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=libKVRa01L8
a. Give your explanation of what the Milky Way Galaxy is.
The Milky Way is a huge collection of stars, dust and gas. It's called a spiral galaxy because if
you could view it from the top or bottom, it would look like a spinning pinwheel. The Sun is
located on one of the spiral arms, about 25,000 light-years away from the center of the galaxy.
b. What are the 2 categories of planets?
Terrestrial: rocket plants
Juvenal: gas’s
c. Describe the 2 categories of planets.
These are Earth-like planets that are small, dense, rocky worlds with less atmosphere than
Giant planets. The Jovian planets include Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. They do not
have a solid surface and consist mainly of hydrogen and helium gas.
d. List 3 interesting facts about the planets or other galaxy facts of your choice.
● Mercury is hot, but not too hot for ice
● Venus doesn't have any moons, and we aren't sure why
● Mars had a thicker atmosphere in the past

3) Vocab- Look through Lesson 2, pgs 82-98. There are 5 highlighted vocab words in this
lesson. In the space below, write the 5 highlighted vocab words with definitions in your
own words (as best possible).

A. asteroid: one of thousands of rocky objects that move in orbits mostly between
those of Mars and Jupiter and have diameters from a fraction of a mile to nearly
500 miles (800 kilometers)

B. black hole: a heavenly body with such strong gravity that light cannot escape it
and that is thought to be caused by the collapse of a massive star
C. comet: a small bright heavenly body that develops a cloudy tail as it moves in an
orbit around the sun

D. dwarf planet :a heavenly body similar to a planet but too small to clear other
objects from its orbit

E. Dwarf Planets in our solar system: Ceres: a dwarf planet that orbits within the
asteroid belt with a mean distance from the sun of 2.7 astronomical units (260
million miles) and a diameter of 590 miles (950 kilometers)

4) Answer Questions Read pgs 82-98 in the book. Complete questions 1-20. Skip Hands
on Labs. Do not include lab questions and labs. Skip Evidence notebook questions.
Take pictures of the book and paste video or pictures below. You may also just type the
answers below.

5) Instead of the lab, do this activity instead.


a) Watch stellar parallax and measuring distance -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwlMmJs1f5o&t=5s
b) After watching the video, explain how and why an object in space seems to
change size and move now and 6 months from now.
Those moving faster than you appear to contract in size (in the direction of their motion).
This follows from the distortion of time—after all, you can measure the length of
something by the amount of space something travels through time (e.g. light-years,
light-seconds).

6) Diagram- Instead of the lab on pg 96, do this activity instead.


1. List the planets and the sun in our solar system in order by smallest to largest
diameter. Use p.96 for reference or online research.
If you were to order the planets by size from smallest to largest they would be Mercury, Mars,
Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter.
2. Pick 9 objects to represent the planets and sun, and put them in order from
smallest to largest.
-List any objects you want (no object is too large or small)
-List them below and make sure the size of your objects are RELATIVE to the
size of a planet it represents. Use p.96 for reference. Be as accurate as possible.
You might need to change objects to make sure they are relative to the size of
the planet.
-For example, if Mars is going to be represented by an egg, then Earth being
twice as large as Mars will be represented by an apple.
-Notice on p.96, Mars is 6,792km in diameter and Earth is about twice that at
12,756km. I would estimate that an egg is about 2 inches in diameter, and an
apple would be 4 inches in diameter. Thus, the represented object size is to
scale.
-Next to each object that you chose to represent each planet, estimate how big
you think it is. We are looking for sizes RELATIVE to the real planets.

7) Complete IXL - GG1. Paste the completion picture below.

8) Complete the Earth and Solar system practice quiz. Paste answers below or link to your
work.
Link-

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