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Summary: We had a standard opening Summary: We had a standard opening. We constructed flash cards for new vocabulary words and took notes on the inner solar system.

Answer the last class’s EQ which was: Essential Question What are the inner planets known as?

Essential Question: What is the answer to State Standard 4a? Topic/Objective: Name: Astronomy Class/Period: Date: March 24, 2016 Essential Question: What is the answer to State Standard 4a?

Warm Up

1. Which of the following stars is the HOTTEST? Blue White Yellow Orange Red

2. The name of our galaxy is the ____ and it is a (spiral, irregular, ellipse) galaxy

3. A cluster of billions of stars, which the cluster may have different shapes, is called a_______

4. All long lived bright objects in space are either reflected light or originate from _____.

Answers

1. Which of the following stars is the HOTTEST? Blue White Yellow Orange Red

1. Which of the following stars is the HOTTEST? Blue White Yellow Orange Red

2. The name of our galaxy is the ____ and it is a (spiral, irregular, ellipse) galaxy

2. The name of our galaxy is the Milky Way Galaxy and it is a (spiral, irregular, ellipse) galaxy

3. A cluster of billions of stars, which the cluster may have different shapes, is called a_______

3. A cluster of billions of stars, which the cluster may have different shapes, is called a Galaxy

4. All long lived bright objects in space are either reflected light or originate from _____.

4. All long lived bright objects in space are either reflected light or originate from stars.

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Today Vocabulary Notes on inner planets Planet worksheet Astronomy Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxno39vLfZE

State Standards Answers to state standards 4a) Shapes of Galaxies - Spiral, Ellipse, Irregular (draw pictures of each)

State Standards Answers to state standards 4b) The Sun is one of many stars in the Milky Way galaxy and stars differ in size, temperature and color.

Blue White Yellow Orange Red

Star sizes link

State Standards Answers to state standards 4c) Know how to use astronomical units and light years as measures of distances between the Sun, stars, and Earth. 1 astronomical unit (1 AU) is the distance from the Sun to Earth.

State Standards Light year: A unit of distance, not time. The distance light travels in 1 year: about 10 trillion kilometers (6 trillion miles). Speed of light 300,000km/second or 186,000 miles per second

-Virtually the same size, mass and Density as Earth 2. Venus -Virtually the same size, mass and Density as Earth -Sun rises in the west and sets in the East because it rotates opposite to Earth -One day on Venus is about as long as a year on Earth -Hottest surface because the atmosphere is a thick cloud of CO2 (464° C). -Rains sulfuric acid -No oceans, Active volcanoes -No Moons -Typically the brightest object in the sky. 27

Just the right distance from the sun Standard: 4 Astronomy 3. Earth Just the right distance from the sun Temperatures are right to not completely freeze or boil away the water 28

Thin atmosphere and further from the sun so it is a cold planet 4. Mars Last Inner planet Thin atmosphere and further from the sun so it is a cold planet Water is in solid form-ice Largest volcanoes 2 moons Rotation is 24 hours and 37 minutes – Similar to the Earth. Revolution takes 1 year, 322 days 29