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____ has colorful clouds in bands of white, red, tan, and brown.

The Solar System

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1
____ has colorful clouds in bands of white, red, tan, and brown.
Jupiter
Neptune
Uranus
Saturn
2
What is the basic astronomical unit based on?
The distance Earth, is from the Sun.
The distance Mercury, the closest planet, is from the Sun.
1,000,000,000 km
The distance Neptune, the farthest planet, is from the Sun.
3
All of the outer planets have which of the following?
both moons and ring systems
just ring systems
none of the above; Saturn has rings while the rest moons.
just moons
4
Pluto's moon, ____, has a diameter equal to half of Pluto's.
Charon
Io
Titan
Ganymede
5
What is the basic shape of every planet’s orbit?
circle
ellipse
egg
oval
6
____ is the third planet from the Sun.
Mars
Earth
Venus
Mercury
7
Which of the following is a common trait of the inner planets?
They all have water.
They all have a solid outer layer.
They are the same size.
The atmospheres are made up of the same gases.
8
Small pieces of rock that enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up are called ____.
asteroids
stars
meteors
meteorites
9
What causes planets and other space objects to revolve around the Sun?
inertia
gravity - the Sun is pulling the object toward it
pressure - the air in space pushes the object toward the Sun
gravity - the object is pulling the Sun toward it
10
This planet has no atmosphere.
Mercury
Jupiter
Mars
Saturn