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CYBEROUTING 16: SOLAR SYSTEM 16-1 PLANET INFORMATION _______________________________________________________________ NAME Suggested Web Site Nine Planets http://www.nineplanets.org Type the address in the browser. Find the following information. The Sun What is the diameter of the sun? ______________________________________________ What is the sun made of? ___________________________________________________ Define the following terms: photosphere ______________________________________________________________ sun spots ________________________________________________________________ solar wind _______________________________________________________________ Look at two images of the sun and describe them. Image 1 _________________________________________________________________ Image 2 _________________________________________________________________ Mercury What spacecraft visited Mercury? What years? __________________________________ How often does Mercury rotate? ______________________________________________ What is the Caloris Basin? How was it created?__________________________________ List three other facts about Mercury. 1. ______________________________________________________________________ 2. ______________________________________________________________________ 3. ______________________________________________________________________ Venus How is Venus similar to Earth?_______________________________________________ Describe what Venus looks like. ______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ List five other facts about Venus. 1. ______________________________________________________________________ 2. ______________________________________________________________________ 3. ______________________________________________________________________ 4. ______________________________________________________________________ 5. ______________________________________________________________________ Earth Who was Copernicus? ______________________________________________________ Describe the Earth’s surface. _________________________________________________ How much of the Earth’s surface is covered with water? ___________________________ How old is the Earth? ______________________________________________________ What is the greenhouse effect? _______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Moon Who first visited the moon?__________________________________________________ What was the name of the spacecraft?__________________________________________ Name the two brightest objects in the sky. ______________________________________ Explain the relationship between the moon and the ocean tides. _____________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Describe the terrain of the moon. _____________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Mars List three names of different terrains on Mars. ___________________________________ What is Phobos? __________________________________________________________ What is Deimos? __________________________________________________________ Jupiter Who is Galileo? ___________________________________________________________ List the Galilean moons. ____________________________________________________ What is the great red spot?___________________________________________________ How many satellites does Jupiter have? ________________________________________ Saturn Describe Saturn’s rings. ____________________________________________________ What is the Cassini division? ________________________________________________ How many satellites does Saturn have? ________________________________________ List five of the satellites. 1. ______________________________________________________________________ 2. ______________________________________________________________________ 3. ______________________________________________________________________ 4. ______________________________________________________________________ 5. ______________________________________________________________________ Uranus Who discovered Uranus? ___________________________________________________ What causes Uranus’ blue color? _____________________________________________ List five other facts about Uranus. 1. ______________________________________________________________________ 2. ______________________________________________________________________ 3. ______________________________________________________________________ 4. ______________________________________________________________________ 5. ______________________________________________________________________ Neptune What is a gas planet? ______________________________________________________ Describe the great dark spot on neptune. _______________________________________ Name Neptune’s rings. _____________________________________________________ How many moons does Neptune have? ________________________________________ Pluto What is Charon? Descibe it. _________________________________________________ When was Pluto discovered? ________________________________________________ Who discovered it? ________________________________________________________ 16-2 PLANET STATISTICS List the planets in order of size, with the smallest first. 1. ______________________________________________________________________ 2. ______________________________________________________________________ 3. ______________________________________________________________________ 4. ______________________________________________________________________ 5. ______________________________________________________________________ 6. ______________________________________________________________________ 7. ______________________________________________________________________ 8. ______________________________________________________________________ 9. ______________________________________________________________________ List the planets as they are positioned from the Sun, with the closest to the Sun first. 1. ______________________________________________________________________ 2. ______________________________________________________________________ 3. ______________________________________________________________________ 4. ______________________________________________________________________ 5. ______________________________________________________________________ 6. ______________________________________________________________________ 7. ______________________________________________________________________ 8. ______________________________________________________________________ 9. ______________________________________________________________________ 16-3 EXTRA-EXTRA Tell who or what each planet is named after. 1. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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