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Earth Science Name:________________________ Astronomy Unit Period:________ Review Worksheet #2 Section Two: [Pages 538-548] Directions: Use your textbook and notes to assist you with answering the following questions __________ 1. What does the word planet mean? a. sky b. wanderers c. stars d. solar system __________ 2. What scientific instrument first made it possible to study the stars and planets? a. gyroscopes b. microscopes c. spectroscopes d. telescopes th __________ 3. Which famous 17 century scientist used a telescope to explore the sky? a. Copernicus b. Charles Darwin c. Galileo d. Isaac Newton _________________________ 4. The inner planets are also called _____ planets because their surfaces are dense and rocky. 5. What are the four planets of the inner solar system? _________________________1. _________________________3. _________________________2. _________________________4. 6. What are the five planets of the outer solar system? _________________________1. _________________________3. _________________________2. _________________________4. _________________________5. 7. Why are most of the outer planets called gas giants? _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ 8. What is the only outer planet that is small, dense, and rocky? It is no longer considered a planet, but instead a ___9__ planet. _________________________ 9. 10. Why are the inner planets called terrestrial planets? a. because they are very hot b. because like Earth they are dense and rocky c. because most are gas giants d. because they can support life 11. In what three ways do the inner planets differ from the outer planets? 1. ________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. ________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. ________________________________________________________________________________________ __________ 12. Because Mercury is less massive than Earth, things there would weigh a. about the same as on Earth b. much more than on Earth c. much less than on Earth d. two-thirds of their weight on Earth _________________________ 13. The amount of time that an object takes to rotate once is called its _____ . 14. Why does Mercury’s day last almost 59 Earth days? _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________15. The time that a planet takes to go around the sun once a. period of rotation __________16. The motion of a body orbiting another body in space b. period of revolution __________17. The amount of time that an object takes to rotate once c. year __________18. The amount of time an object takes to revolve around the sun d. revolution __________ 19. Which of the terrestrial planets has the densest atmosphere? a. Earth b. Mars c. Mercury d. Venus __________ 20. What Earthlike feature was discovered on the surface of Venus? a. continents b. oceans c. rift valleys d. volcanoes __________ 21. How does the air pressure on Mars compare with that on Earth? a. The air pressure is about the same as on Earth. c. The air pressure is lower on Mars. b. The air pressure is greater on Mars. d. The air pressure is lower on Earth. __________ 22. What evidence suggests that there was once liquid water on Mars? a. The Martian icecaps c. features like wave patterns b. features like dry river beds d. water vapor in its atmosphere __________ 23. Where may some of the lost water on Mars be found? a. in underground rivers c. frozen beneath the Martian soil b. frozen in icecaps d. in underground oceans 24. Give two reasons why Mars is a cold planet. 1. ________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. ________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ 25. A planet that has a deep, massive atmosphere, rather than a hard and rocky surface, is called a(n) _____. __________ 26. Which of the following is the largest planet in our solar system? a. Jupiter b. Earth c. Saturn d. Neptune __________ 27. What makes up the outer part of Jupiter’s atmosphere? a. oxygen, nitrogen, helium c. carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen b. water, methane, ammonia d. hydrogen, oxygen, water __________ 28. What is Jupiter’s Great Red Spot? a. thick layers of clouds b. a huge storm system c. metallic hydrogen d. colorful organic molecules __________ 29. What makes up Saturn’s rings? a. rocks and dust b. iron and metals c. different sized icy particles d. organic molecules __________ 30. What is unusual about Uranus’s axis of rotation? a. It is perpendicular to the orbital plane c. It is tilted at a 45 degree angle b. It is tilted almost 90 degrees on its side d. Its poles are reversed 31. How do scientists explain what may have happened to Uranus to cause its axis of rotation? _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ 32. Neptune had an area called the _____ similar to the Great Red Spot found on Jupiter.