ESS Review: The Solar System

The dense concentration of gas at the center of the solar nebula eventually became the Sun.

Has the greatest temperature range of any planet.

What speed is needed for a gas molecule to escape from a planet?

Probably found in an orbit around the sun, between Mars and Jupiter.

The planets orbit the sun in circular orbits.

Has the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons.

These are frozen gases and dust with a bright burning tail.

These two planets are very similar in mass and size.

The largest object in the solar system.

Uranus’ twin.

Most meteorites are probably pieces of comets.

The largest planet.

A large moon of Saturn with a thick nitrogen atmosphere.

Name the planet/dwarf planet that has the largest moon, compared to its own size, of any planet

The hottest planet.

What’s the name of Pluto’s largest moon?

The planet Venus appears to go through phases much as the Earth’s moon does.

Our solar system is located in which galaxy?

This is the most famous comet that comes around roughly every 75 years.

The largest inner planet.

What elements are the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn primarily composed of?

Modern Nebular Hypothesis says ____ is the reason the cloud collapses

Has the largest canyon in the solar system, Valles Marineris.

A moon of Uranus that appears to have been smashed apart and crudely reassembled.

Cerberus is a dwarf planet that orbits in the asteroid belt.

Most comets are thought to orbit far from the sun in a spherical shell called the Kuiper Belt.

Has the most visible rings.

Interstellar cloud (nebula) is composed of gas and dust from which stars and planets are formed

The largest moon in the solar system.

Has evidence of liquid water in the distant past; none is there today.

The first Kuiper Belt Object discovered (in 1930).

Made mostly of ices and some rocky material, like a “dirty snowball.”

Has a thick, carbon dioxide atmosphere.

A meteor that hits the Earth’s surface is called a ...

Has the Great Red Spot.

Has water in the solid, liquid, and gaseous states.

What is the glowing head of a comet called?

Inner planet whose surface is in constant motion.

Called the Red Planet.

Planet that looks most like Earth’s moon.

The most volcanic object known.

The asteroid belt is located in the space between …

Has the shortest year of any planet.

the process that makes Venus hotter than Mercury

Has the most tilted rotational axis of any planet.

The brightest planet, as seen from Earth (not including Earth).