Our Solar System Chapter 28

This planet alternating swirling bands of light and dark clouds, 4 major moons faint rings

Which is the apparent backward movement of a planet?

This is an oval shape that is centered on two points instead of a single point, as in a circle?

An asteroid fragment that is on the ground is called

This is a large, gaseous planets that have gas or liquid interiors and small solid cores?

Venus is similar to Earth because its surface is also broken into many tectonic plates

Which space probe studied Mercury

Mars is the hottest planet in the solar system

This planet is bluish in color due to methane , has distinct clouds and color bands & 13 moons

Which are small, icy bodies that have highly eccentric orbits around the Sun?

Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune have belts and zones while Uranus does not

Mercury is the only planet in the solar system with craters

This is Earth's average distance from the Sun and Earth, or 1,496x10⁸ km

Developed the Sun-centered, or heliocentric model, of the solar system

Atmosphere replenished by the solar wind, heavily cratered surface, no moons

Venus has a thick atmosphere with a greenhouse effect and sulfuric acid clouds

The high, cool, light colored clouds that rise in Jupiter's atmosphere are called

The low, warm, dark-colored clouds that sink in Jupiter's atmosphere are called

Ice caps cover both poles on Mars

When a meteoroid passes through Earth's atmosphere producing a streak of light called a

Which are the cliffs found in a planetwide system on Mercury?

Uranus and Neptune have methane in their atmospheres while Jupiter and Saturn do not.

The surface of Venus has few impact craters and is smoothed by volcanic lava flows.

Eccentricity is the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis

This planet is velvety blue due to methane in its atmosphere, titled nearly 90^o

A dwarf planet is all of these except this one

All are true about the terrestrial planets except this

This planet has a distinct ring system made of ice, over 60 moons 1 moon larger than mercury

Thin Atmosphere, ice caps at both poles, two small moons

Bright streaks of light that are produced when Earth crosses the trail of a comet

An asteroid fragment, of an other interplanetary material is called a(n)

Gas giant planet include all except this one

Which planet was study by the probe Magellan?

Earth is the only planet that has liquid water and can support life.

Abundant liquid water, thick atmosphere that supports life, active plate tectonics, one moon

Which is not true about Mars

Astronomers think that Saturn's rings are made of mat'l leftover from the formation of Saturn

Which statement is false of the structure of a comet?

The Sun and the gas giants are similar in that they all are made mostly of _____.

Which is the name of Saturn's largest moon?

Demonstrated that each planet orbits the Sun in an elliptical path

Jupiter has four named moons while Saturn, Neptune and Uranus have no named moons.

Exploration Rovers probe studied which planet?

Space objects built of solid particles that can form planets through collisions and mergers are

Early astronomers thought that all objects in space orbited Earth this is called

Spins backwards, thick acidic atmosphere, may have active volcanoes no moons