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Solar System Scavenger Hunt Directions: Use the links in at my teacher website to find the information below. The bolded terms are the name of the link where you will find the information. Solar System 1. What shape is our Solar System? ________________________________________ 2. How many planets are in our solar system? ________________________________________ 3. How old is our solar system? ________________________________________ Planets 4. Which planets are called the inner planets? ________________________________________________________ 5. What are the inner planets made of? ________________________________________ 6. Which planets are the outer planets? _____________________________________________________________ 7. What are the outer planets made of? ________________________________________ Mercury 8. What object is Mercury similar in size to? ________________________________________ 9. How did the planet Mercury get its name? _________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. What types of objects have made craters on Mercury’s surface? __________________________ Venus 11. How hot does the sun-facing side of Venus get? ____________________________________________________ 12. Why does Venus get so hot? ____________________________________________________________________ 13. How is Venus unlike all the other planets in the solar system? _________________________________________ Earth 14. How much of Earth is covered by water? ________________________________________ 15. What is most of Earth’s atmosphere made of? ________________________________________ Mars 16. What gives Mars its red color? ________________________________________ 17. How do we know Mars’ clay contains iron? ________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 18. What are the names of Mars’ moons? ________________________________________ Asteroid Belt 19. What is an asteroid? __________________________________________________________________________ 20. Where are most of the asteroids in our solar system found? __________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 21. What can happen to asteroids pulled out of the asteroid belt? _________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Jupiter 22. How big is Jupiter compared to the other planets? __________________________________________________ 23. What two gases make up most of Jupiter? ________________________________________ 24. Describe the Great Red Spot: ___________________________________________________________________ 25. How many moons does Jupiter have in total (named and unnamed?): ______________________ Galilean Moons 26. Why are the Galilean Moons called the “Galilean Moons”? ____________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 27. Which Galilean Moons has active volcanoes? ________________________________________ 28. Which Galilean Moon is the largest? ________________________________________ 29. Which moon appears to be very young (cosmically speaking) and may have a huge liquid ocean beneath kilometers of ice? _________________________ 30. Which moon is heavily cratered and may have a salty ocean? ____________________________ Saturn 31. How fast can the wind blow on Saturn? ________________________________________ 32. How many rings surround Saturn? ________________________________________ 33. Where do scientists think the rings of Saturn come from? ____________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 34. How many moons does Saturn have? ________________________________________ Uranus 35. What does Uranus’ far tilt result in? _________________________________________________ 36. What causes Uranus’ blue-green color? ________________________________________ 37. How many rings does Uranus have? _________________________________________ 38. How many moons does Uranus have? ________________________________________ Neptune 39. How fast does the wind blow on Neptune? ________________________________________ 40. What are the dark circles on Neptune? ________________________________________ 41. How many moons does Neptune have? ________________________________________ 42. What is strange about Neptune’s moon Triton? _____________________________________________________ Pluto 43. Pluto is no longer considered a planet because______________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 44. Any object, like Pluto, that doesn’t meet the criteria listed above is called a ______________________________ 45. When will the New Horizons spacecraft reach Pluto? ___________________________________ Comets 46. What is a comet? ______________________________________________________________________ 47. Click on “lump”. What happens as the comet approaches the sun? ___________________________________ 48. Go back to the main comet page. Click on “Outer reaches”. What two locations can comets come from? ___________________________________ and __________________________________ Kuiper Belt 49. What is the Kuiper Belt? ______________________________________________________________________ 50. What are objects found in the Kuiper Belt made of? ___________________________________ 51. What is the “tenth planet”? ____________________________________________________________________ Meteors 52. What are meteors? ______________________________________________________________________ 53. What is a meteoroid? ______________________________________________________________________ 54. What is a meteorite______________________________________________________________________ 55. List three ways meteors and comets are different: _________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 56. What is a meteor shower? _____________________________________________________________________ 57. What causes a meteor shower? ________________________________________________________________
