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About how long does it take for the moon to make a complete orbit around the Earth
and return to it's starting position?
---- days
A relatively small natural body in space the revolves around a planet
-------------The darkest part of a shadow
--------------Name the four terrestrial planets
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Explain the difference between a Meteor, Meteroid and Meteorite
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Name the four gas giants
--------------------------Name the phases of Moon, Draw illustration of a Waxing crescent.
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A round depression in the surface of a planet, moon, asteroid, or comet, caused by
the impact of a meteoroid.
---------------------------Name the Astrologer who discovered the four largest Jovian moons
---------------------------Small, rocky solar system bodies, most of which are found orbiting the sun in a
region between Mars and Jupiter
---------------------------Mercury or Venus, which one is hotter?
--------------------Rank the planets from shortest to longest orbital periods
--------------------Rank jupiter, mars, earth, and saturn by the most to least amount of moons
--------------------Give 2 reasons why Pluto is not considered as a planet.
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All planets orbit the Sun in the same direction (counterclockwise as viewed
from above Earth's North Pole). True/False?
--------------------Which planet gets so bright as to be seen in daylight at times?
--------------------Which planet has a longer rotation period than its revolution around the Sun.
--------------------The main constituent of the martian atmosphere is
--------------------Name the Jovian planets
--------------------Blue color of uranus and Neptune is caused by
--------------------Name the moons of Jupiter
--------------------Largest moon in the solar system
--------------------What is unusual about Triton?
-------------------------------Who discovered Uranus?
-------------------------------The Great Red Spot is found in this planet
-------------------------------Essentially, the Great Red Spot is
-------------------------------Most of ------------ originate from Oort cloud or the kuiper belt
Name the Galilean moons
-------------------------------This planet’s surface experiences the greatest temperature variation of all the
planets because it has no atmosphere to retain heat.
-------------------------------About ----------- % of the Earth’s surface is covered by salt water oceans.
Which one of the following causes seasons on Earth?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Earth’s atmosphere
Phases of Moon
Earth’s axial tilt
Earth’s magnetic field
The reddish appearance of Mars surface is caused by ----------------------------------1. Carbon dioxide on the atmosphere
2. Thick clouds of sulfuric acid
3. Hydrogen and Helium gas
4. Iron Oxide
This planet spins on it’s axis faster than any other planet
------------------------This planet is the least dense of all planets
-----------------------------This planet is the coldest planet in the solar system
-----------------------------This is the only dwarf planet located in the inner solar system
-------------------------------This dwarf planet is the largest object in the Kuiper belt
1.
2.
3.
4.
Ceres
Haumea
Makemake
Pluto
Earth’s axial tilt is ------ degrees
Largest dwarf planet is
1.
2.
3.
4.
Ceres
Haumea
Pluto
Eris
Answer Keys (Skipping some obvious one’s)
27 days
Moon
Umbra
(Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars),
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune)
For some planets, temperature correlates with distance from the Sun: the closer to
the Sun, the hotter the planet. This is not always the case, because a planet's
temperature also depends on its reflectivity and on the strength of its greenhouse
effect (if any). For example, the greenhouse effect gives Venus a higher average
temperature than Mercury, even though Venus is nearly twice as far from the Sun.
Recall that the time it takes a planet to orbit the Sun is called its orbital period, and
that Kepler's third law tells us that orbital period increases with distance from the
Sun. That is why the ranking order for orbital period is the same as the ranking
order for distance from the Sun.
Jupiter has many moons as a consequence of its formation, in which moons formed
in a disk of material surrounding it and its extended atmosphere at the time allowed
it to capture numerous small bodies into orbit. Mars has two very small moons that
it presumably captured at a time when it, too, had an extended atmosphere. Earth's
single but surprisingly large moon is thought to have formed as a result of a giant
impact. Mercury (and Venus) have no moons.
Answer : Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Earth
1.Both Pluto and Eris are smaller than any of the terrestrial planets. 2. Both Pluto
and Eris travel in more elliptical orbits than any of the terrestrial or jovian planets.
3.Both Pluto and Eris are less massive than any of the terrestrial or jovian planets.
They have not cleared it's orbit (not a dominant gravitational influence)
All planets orbit the Sun in the same direction (counterclockwise as viewed from
above Earth's North Pole). -- True
Which planet gets so bright as to be seen in daylight at times? -- Venus
Venus has a longer rotation period than revolution
The main constituent of the martian atmosphere is Carbon Dioxide
Jovian planets (gas giants) - Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter
Blue color of uranus and Neptune is caused by - Methane
Triton orbits its planet backward.
William Herschel was the discoverer of Uranus.
Essentially, the Great Red Spot is a large cyclonic storm (hurricane).
Most of comets originate from Oort cloud or the kuiper belt
The Galilean moons are the four largest moons of Jupiter—Io, Europa, Ganymede,
and Callisto
This planet’s surface experiences the greatest temperature variation of all the
planets because it has no atmosphere to retain heat. -- Mercury
71% of earth's surface is covered with salt water oceans
The reddish appearance of Mars surface is caused by Iron Oxide
This planet spins on it’s axis faster than any other planet - Jupiter
This planet is the least dense of all planets -- Saturn
This planet is the coldest planet in the solar system -- Uranus
This is the only dwarf planet located in the inner solar system -- Ceres
This dwarf planet is the largest object in the Kuiper belt -- Pluto
Earth’s axial tilt is ------ degrees -- 23.5
Largest dwarf planet is Eris