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 * Nebula- Interstellar cloud of gas and dust. || [[image:http://ncse.com/files/images/607px-Eagle_nebula_pillars.jpg height="247" caption="external image 607px-Eagle_nebula_pillars.jpg"]] || The formation of a star, planets, etc. (a solar system) is thought to begin when gravity begins to pull together material from a nebula. ||
 * Terrestrial Planet- **telluric planet** or **rocky planet** is a [|planet] that is primarily composed of [|silicate][|rocks] and/or [|metals] . Within the [|solar system], the terrestrial planets are the [|inner planets] closest to the[|Sun] . ||  || These inner planets are describe as earth-like and closest to sun. Made up of dust and gases to form. ||
 * Gas Giant- is a large [|planet] that is not primarily composed of [|rock] or other [|solid] matter. ||  || Usually outer planets, composed of gasses. Will be made up of no solid matter. ||
 * Planetesimal- are solid objects thought to exist in [|protoplanetary disks] and in [|debris disks] . ||  || A collection of dust, sometimes believed to be a way the solar system started. ||
 * Planet- is a celestial body [|orbiting] a [|star] or [|stellar remnant] that is massive enough to be rounded by its own [|gravity], is not massive enough to cause [|thermonuclear fusion] , and has <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|cleared its neighbouring region] of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|planetesimals] . ||  || Having gravity, a solar orbit, density, and neighboring planets ||
 * Satellite(moon)- is a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|celestial body] that <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|orbits] a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|planet] or smaller body, which is called its //primary//. The two terms are used synonymously for non-artificial <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|satellites] of planets, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|dwarf planets], and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|minor planets] . ||  || A smaller celestial body, belongs to a primary planet. Primarily made up of rock and dust. ||
 * Asteroid- are a class of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|small Solar System bodies] in orbit around the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Sun] . The term "asteroid" was historically applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that was not observed to have the characteristics of an active <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|comet] or a planet. ||  || A small body of gas and rock, orbits planet, suns and bodies of mass. ||
 * Asteroid belt- i s the region of the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Solar System] located roughly between the orbits of the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|planets] [|Mars] and<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Jupiter] . It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|asteroids] . ||  || Belt of Asteroids together around Jupiter. A reason of planet building by crashing into them. ||
 * Meteor- is a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|sand] - to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|boulder] -sized particle of debris in the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Solar System] . ||  || Debris that crashes into planets and helps build hem up. ||
 * Meteoroid-<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 15px;">is a sand- to boulder-sized particle of debris in the Solar System. ||  || Debris that crashes into planets and helps build hem up. ||
 * Meteorite- is a natural object originating in <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|outer space] that survives impact with the Earth's surface. ||  || Debris that crashes into planets and helps build hem up. ||
 * Comet- <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: sans-serif;">is an icy <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|small Solar System body] that, when close enough to the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Sun], displays a visible <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|coma] (a thin, fuzzy, temporary<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|atmosphere] ) and sometimes also a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|tail] . ||  || Icy rock build in orbit of a planet in far out solar system ||
 * Nucleus-the inner core of the comet made up of solid rock ||  || Solid rock build up in core of comet ||
 * Coma- <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: sans-serif;">is the nebulous envelope around the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|nucleus] of a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|comet] . It is formed when the comet passes close to the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Sun] on its highly <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|elliptical] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|orbit] ; as the comet warms, parts of it <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|sublimate] . || [[image:http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0711/holmes_peris_big.jpg width="800" height="479"]] || Inner nucleus of a comet. ||
 * Kuiper- <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: sans-serif;">sometimes called the **Edgeworth-Kuiper belt**, is a region of the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Solar System] beyond the planets extending from the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|orbit] of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Neptune] (at 30 <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|AU] ) to approximately 55 <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|AU] from the<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Sun] . <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[|[2]]  ||   || Outer aeroid belt, beyond the solar sysyem ||
 * Oort Cloud- <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: sans-serif;">alternatively the **Öpik-Oort cloud** IPA: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|[ˈøpik]] ) is a hypothesized spherical cloud of<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|comets] which may lie roughly 50,000 <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|AU], or nearly a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|light-year] , from the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Sun] . <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[|[1]]  This places the cloud at nearly a quarter of the distance to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Proxima Centauri] , the nearest <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|star] to the Sun. ||   || Outer clouds of comets made up of rocks formlly used to make planets. ||

__nebula__, __terrestrial planet, gas giant__, planetesimal, planet, satellite (moon), __<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|asteroid] __, __asteroid belt__, __meteor__, meteoroid, __meteorite__, __comet__, nucleus, coma__, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud__.
 * Assignment 2 Rock Forming Minerals**

Granite is an igneous rock, that means it forms from lava and has several other minerals composed in it. Granite forms when molten magma cools relatively slow under the earth in something called magma chamber or plume. There is a mixture of the minerals Quartz, Micas, several kinds of Feldspar, and Hornblende. There is a lack of chemical activity and not a lot of cleavage so it gives granite its desirable key characteristic, its hardness. The different colors of Granite are grey, black, white, yellow, tan, pink, and blue. Its used in many ways such as curbs, counters, sidewalks, and several other building uses.

The close up look at a granite top.



Grading for assignment 4 is based on the following: __20 points total__ 5 points for the paragraph description of how the rock forms 5 points for the picture showing how the rock forms 5 points for the pictures of the minerals involved 5 points for the picture of the rock you're describing


 * Assignment 1 Earth's system interactions**

Hydrosphere and Lithosphere-

The Lithosphere and Hydrosphere are a good example of the interactions of two branches of earth science. The hydrosphere contains all water on earth and is the cause of the earths lithosphere breaking down or eroding. Water running down a mountain erodes rock and deposits it into the earths oceans providing it with sediment and key nutrients it needs for life to flourish. Another way is rain in general coming down breaks rocks down over time, causing the lithosphere, or crust to look the way it does. The lithosphere or shape of the earth is the reason water runs off into river, lakes, and oceans. After the water is deposited, the water cycle repeats itself, or the hydrosphere's biggest and most important accomplishment. The lithosphere is where we are, its the ground right underneath our feet, and the hydrorsphere, replenishing our water source and provinding us with many nutrients and food that we need. The hydrosphere and lithosphere is one of the most important interactions of earth's systems.


 * Assignment 2 Rock Forming Minerals**