Regents Earth Science - Solar System

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Solar System = 4.6 (million, billion) years old or 4,600 (million, billion) years old

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billion, million

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Solar System = Sun, 8 planets, Asteroid belt, Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud

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True

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Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

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Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

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Inner Planets: small, denser, no rings, few moon, Terrestrial

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small, denser, no rings, few moon, Terrestrial

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Outer Planets: small, denser, no rings, few moons, Terrestrial or larger, less dense, rings, many moons, Jovian, Gas Giant?

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larger, less dense, rings, many moons, Jovian, Gas Giant

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Asteroid belt between Mars and ___________ is made of (snow cones, rocks)

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Jupiter, rocks

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Kuiper Belt = (dwarf, giant) planets such as Pluto and (asteroids, comets)

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dwarf, comets

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Pluto = __________ planet, (circular, elliptical) orbit

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dwarf, elliptical

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Eccentricity = (how oval like a planet’s orbit is, someone’s personality)

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how oval like a planet's orbit is

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highest eccentricity = (0, 1, 100) = most elliptical, least circular = line

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