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Study Guide for Quiz on Solar System – Part 1
Quiz on Wednesday, January 11, 2017
The following can be used on the open notes part.
Your notes on planets and moons and table of comparisons of inner and outer planets (Will be collected
with quiz)
“Comets Notes” with Asteroids, Meteoroids, Meteors, Meteorites notes
“Astronomers Notes – Chapter 3 Section 1: Observing the Solar System”
You may not use this study guide, “Creating Notes on Planet Characteristics and Comparisons”
either “Part 1 – Inner Planets” or “Continued”, the video notes, or my tables of inner and outer
planets during the quiz. You should study these plus sections 1, 3, 4, and 5 from Chapter 3 and pages
56-57 from Chapter 2 and prepare your notes.
The quiz will be in two parts:
Closed Notes:
• The names of the inner planets and outer planets and their order in distance from the Sun.
• Characteristics of inner planets as a group, outer planets as a group, and all planets. Study your table
and the examples from “Creating Notes on Planet Characteristics and Comparisons”. Some will also
be on open notes part.
Open Notes
• Characteristics of individual planets.
• Characteristics of some major moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan, Enceladus, Triton).
• Characteristics of inner planets as a group, outer planets as a group, and all planets. Some is also in
the closed notes part.
• Definitions of and differences between comets, meteoroids, meteors, meteorites, and asteroids.
• The parts of a comet and how the coma and tail are produced
• The relative lengths (longer/shorter/none) and direction (away from sun) of the tail at different points
in a comet’s orbit and why.
• Comets originate from either the Kuiper belt or the Oort cloud
• Contributions of astronomers to our understanding of the Solar System
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Practice Quiz
I. Closed notes: List from memory the four inner planets in order from closest to the Sun to farthest from Sun.
Do the same for the four outer planets.
II. For individual planets and moons, treat the clues on “Creating Notes on Planet Characteristics and
Comparisons” either “Part 1 – Inner Planets” or “Continued” as the practice quiz. These will all be open notes.
III. Comparisons. For each statement below identify whether it best describes inner planets (IP), outer planets
(OP) or all planets (ALL). Write the abbreviations. Do this without notes. Some of these will be in the closed
notes section. Some will also be in the open notes section.
1. ______ Rocky with iron cores.
10. ______ Have 0 to 2 moons.
2. ______ Made mainly of H and He.
11. ______ Have more than 10 moons.
3. ______ Revolve around the Sun.
12. ______ About 4 to 11 times the diameter of Earth.
4. ______ Have rings.
13. ______ About 0.4 to 1 times the diameter of Earth.
5. ______ Are the closest to the sun.
14. ______ Have craters.
6. ______ Have elliptical orbits.
15. ______ Are basically spherical.
7. ______ Venus belongs to this group (IP or OP).
16. ______ Are closer to the Sun than 2 AU.
8. ______ Uranus belongs to this group (IP or OP).
17. ______ Within about 30 AU from the Sun or closer.
9. ______ Mainly made of gas and liquid.
18. ______ Are farther from the Sun than 5 AU.
IV. Comets, Asteroids, Meteoroids, Meteors, Meteorites. Open notes.
Write the name of the small solar system object or part of a comet that best matches the statement.
1. ___________________ A small object from space that hits the surface of the Earth.
2. ___________________ Large rocky objects orbiting the sun that range in size from less than 1 km to over
300 km. Most are between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
3. ___________________ The cloud of gas and dust surrounding the rocky core of a comet and having a
diameter of 100,000 to 1 million km.
4. ___________________ Small rocky objects or particles orbiting the sun with diameters less than 100 m, but
most often less than 1 mm.
5. ___________________ Long stream of gas and dust in a comet that is produced by solar wind.
6. ___________________ Glowing streak produced by an object or particle that falls through the atmosphere.
7. ___________________ The ice, dust and rock core of a comet.
V. Parts of comets. Open notes. To the right is a
diagram of the parts of a comet. Write the number from
each part in the blanks:
coma ____
nucleus ____
tail ____
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1
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VI. Orbit of Comet. Open notes.
On the diagram below draw the coma and the direction and length of straight gas tail on a comet at each lettered
location B, C, and D. The dot represents the nucleus of the comet. There should be no coma or tail at A.
At which lettered location on the orbit would the comet have the fastest speed? _____ 2. Slowest speed? _____
B
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A
D
VII. Name and locate the two sources of comets. Open notes.
VIII Astronomers. Open notes.
Directions: Refer to your chart on the astronomers. Write the letter of the correct contribution next to the name of
the astronomer. The astronomers are listed in historical order as on your chart.
1. ______ Ancient Greeks
A. Developed the heliocentric model and worked out the arrangement of the
planets and their movement around the sun.
2. ______ Ptolemy
3. ______ Copernicus
4. ______ Tycho Brahe
5. ______ Kepler
6. ______ Galileo
7. ______ Newton
B. Concluded that planets are kept in orbit by a combination of inertia and
gravity.
C. Determined that all planets travel in elliptical orbits by using Tycho
Brahe’s data.
D. Discovered Jupiter’s 4 moons and saw Venus’ phases by using a
telescope.
E. Developed geocentric model with planets moving on small circles that
move on bigger circles around Earth.
F. Made careful observations of positions of the planets without using a
telescope.
G. Discovered points of light that wandered among the stars (planets).