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Astronomers and our Planets
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1
A chunk of asteroid that hits the earth is called a
meteror
Joe Dirt trophy
meteroid
meteorite
2
Asteroids are found in the ____ ___ located between Mars and Jupiter.
Asteroid Belt
Kuiper Belt
Oort Cloud
Golden zone
3
Which planet spins backwards?
Neptune
Venus
Uranus
Mercury
4
What planet has an atmosphere 90X more dense than ours with 96% CO2?
Haumea (Planetoid)
Venus
Neptune
Ceres (Planetoid)
5
A _________is a piece of dust burning up in the atmosphere.
meteroite
asteroid
meteror
meteroid
6
Who did all the mathematical work involving ellipses?
Galileo
Ptolemy
Kepler
Newton
7
A _______ is a bit of space dust in space orbiting the sun.
meteroid
shooting star
meteroite
meteror
8
If a space debris (comet/asteroid) comes close to earth it's called
Earth Grazer
Impact killer
Dinosaur Grazer
Earth killer
9
Haumea, MakeMake, Ceres, Eris are...
Moons of Saturn
Asteroids
Moons of Jupiter
Planetoids
10
Who is credited with the correct, heliocentric model of the solar system?
Galileo
Copernicus
Kepler
Ptolemy
11
Most of the Planetoids/Dwarf Planets are in the
Asteroid belt
Oort cloud
Kuiper belt
Kepler belt
12
All gas giants
rotate slowly
have no moons
have no rings
rotate quickly
13
What planet did Galileo look at, that changed it all, and proved Copernicus correct?
Venus
Mars
Saturn
Jupiter
14
What is it called when a planet seems to move backwards?
Retrograde motion
Reverse motion
Revolving motion
Radiant motion
15
What planet is the least dense and is a flattened oblate spheroid?
Uranus
Neptune
Saturn
Jupiter
16
The storm on Jupiter is called...
Big Red Dot
Big Red Storm
Giant Red Spot
Giant Red Dot
17
When an orbiting object moves closer to a planet its speed...
decreases
stops
increases
remains the same
18
Which is not a terrestrial planet?
Venus
Mars
Mercury
Neptune
19
What planet rolls on it's side?
Venus
Uranus
Pluto
Neptune
20
Terrestrial planets
have rings
have dense gas atmospheres
have impact craters
have moons
21
The biggest volcano in the solar system is found on...
Venus
Mars
Europa (Moon of Jupiter)
Earth (Yellowstone)
22
A comet is a
big dirty snowball
small bit of space dust
rogue asteroid
rock of iron and carbon
23
Who developed the Geocentric model of the solar system?
Aristotle
Galileo
Copernicus
Ptolemy
24
Comets come from the
Oort cloud
Kuiper belt
moons of Jupiter
Asteroid belt
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All gas giants have H and He, but Neptune and Uranus also have..
Carbon chunks
Ethane
Methane
Water ice
