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Questions about planets in our solar system. Students may use Pg. 27A from their lab book.
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1
Which planet glows due to its strong magnetic field?
Uranus
Saturn
Neptune
Jupiter
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What column on Pg.27A would you look at to determine how circular a planets orbit is?
Revolution
Eccentricity
Surface Gravity
Diameter
3
What does one Astronomical Unit (A.U.) Represent?
Distance between Earth and Mars
Distance between planets
Distance in space
Distance between the sun and Earth
4
Which planet has the most circular orbit?
Venus
Mercury
Mars
Earth
5
What planet is nick named the "red planet" because it is covered in iron oxide?
Jupiter
Mars
Venus
Mercury
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Which planet rotates the slowest?
Mars
Venus
Earth
Mercury
7
Which planet is covered in craters and has no moons?
Venus
Mars
Earth
Mercury
8
What is the length of day on Venus?
243d
177 degrees
35.03 Km/Sec
225d
9
If the scale of your drawing was 1cm = 10,000 km, how big would the planet Saturn be in cm?
6cm
0.6cm
60cm
600cm
10
Which planet has the "Great Red Spot" that is a hurricane that has lasted for over 400 years?
Jupiter
Uranus
Saturn
Neptune
11
What column on Pg.27A would you look at to determine length of day?
Surface Gravity
Rotation
Planet Density
Revolution
12
Which planet has abundant liquid water, moderate temperatures and supports life?
Mars
Venus
Mercury
Earth
13
Which planet has the great "dark spot"?
Neptune
Saturn
Uranus
Jupiter
14
What divides the inner and outer planets?
Moons
Jupiter
Gasses
Asteroids
15
What are the outer planets made of?
Ice
Gasses
Rocks
Graphite
16
How far are Uranus and Neptune away from one another?
10.88 A.U.
1.56 A.U.
577 A.U.
30.07 A.U.
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What column on Pg.27A would you look at to determine how fast the planet is going in orbit?
Revolution
Surface gravity
Orbital Speed
Rotation
18
What are the three characteristics of outer planets?
Large, colorful, lots of moons
rocky, rings, lots of moons
Large, made of gas, lots of moons
Solid, rocky, few moons
19
How much is 1 A.U. in Km?
93 million
193 million
150 million
100 million
20
Why is Pluto now considered a dwarf planet or planetoid?
Scientists no longer like the planet
Elliptical orbit, solid, small, no rings
It is too big, has too many rings and moons
It is too far away from the sun
21
Which planet has the largest ring system, and "rains" graphite and diamonds?
Saturn
Jupiter
Neptune
Uranus
22
Which planet is the hottest in our solar system?
Earth
Mercury
Mars
Venus
23
If you weighed 75 lbs on Earth how much would you weigh on Mercury?
28.5lbs
0.01lbs
285lbs
197.37lbs
24
If you weighed 100 lbs on Earth how much would you weigh on Neptune?
98.88
11.2lbs
89.28lbs
112lbs
25
Which planet would you weigh the least on?
Earth
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
26
Which planet would float in water if you had a bath tub big enough?
Uranus
Saturn
Neptune
Jupiter
27
What planet are we set to land on in the next few decades and possibly build a space station?
Jupiter
Venus
Mars
Mercury
28
What column on Pg.27A would you look at to determine how heavy the planet is?
Surface Gravity
Planet Density
A.U.
Eccentricity
29
If the scale of your drawing was 1cm = 150 km, how big would the dwarf planet Pluto be in cm?
100cm
1cm
10cm
0.1cm
30
Which planet has the most elliptical orbit?
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Earth
31
How long is a year on Mars?
24.13 Km/sec
25h
1.9y
1.52 A.U.
32
Which planet has the fastest year?
Mars
Earth
Mercury
Venus
33
What is the length of day on Neptune?
16h
49,528 km
30.07A.U.
165y
34
How long is a year on Uranus?
84y
51,118Km
16h
1.12
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What column on Pg.27A from your lab book would you look at to determin your weight on planets?
Planet Density
Eccentricity
A.U.
Surface Gravity
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What column on Pg.27A would you look at to determine how big the planet is?
Planet Density
Revolution
Diameter
Rotation
