Solar System Quiz Mrs. PattonA

Which planet is not a gas giant?

Scientific name for a shooting star - a rock that burns up in the earth's atmosphere.

Mars has two moons. What are they called?

The length of a day on this planet is only 40 minutes longer than a day on earth.

Which planet is about 93 million miles, or 150 million km from the Sun.

Scientists think this planet has ice caps of frozen water at the poles.

A crater often forms as a result of this event.

This comet orbits the sun every 75 years

What is the coldest planet at -2230 ^C It is called the "Ice Giant?"

A space rock that passes through the atmosphere and lands on the earth.

Mars is a red planet due to this.

Why are Neptune and Uranus blue?

Saturn is not the only gas giant to have these features.

What is the brightest and hottest planet with temperatures up to 4600^C?

Which planet has had a storm that has lasted for decades?

Which planet takes about 160 earth years to circle the sun?

Which planet has clouds of sulphuric acid?

The sun is made of these two gases.

The closest planet to the sun and the smallest, but not the hottest.

Which spacecraft has traveled 35 years to reach the edge of the solar system?

Which is the only planet known to have liquid water?

The Sun makes up this percent of the mass of the Solar System.

Which planet is not a rocky planet?

A region of rocks between Mars and Jupiter

Which spacecraft has traveled 35 years to reach the edge of the solar system?

What is Olympus Mons?

This is a feature that makes Jupiter unique.

This planet has the biggest temperature change, from very hot in the day to very cold at night?

What kind of star is our sun?

This planet is often visible just above the horizon on earth at sunset or sunrise.

The term for a planet's path around the sun.