CH 11, 12, 13

Question 0

T/F

Juipiter has twice the mass of all the other planets combined.

Answer 0

T

Question 1

T/F differential rotation is when a planets equator and polar regions rotate at different rates

Answer 1

T

Question 2

T/F The Great Red Spot has been seen on Juipiter as long as we have had scopes capable of observing it.

Answer 2

T

Question 3

T/F we have observed a comet strike Juipiter

Answer 3

T

Question 4

T/F Juipiters magnetic field is much stronger than Earths, and had a magnetic tail that extends beyond the orbit of Saturn

Answer 4

T

Question 5

T/F Saturn is less dense than water

Answer 5

T

Question 6

T/F Saturns rotation is fast and differential, much like Juipiters

Answer 6

T

Question 7

T/F Saturn is the only planet with a ring system

Answer 7

F

Question 8

T/F the rings of Saturn occupy the region inside saturnalia Roche limit

Answer 8

T

Question 9

T/F a typical ring particle is about the size of snowball

Answer 9

T

Question 10

What is interesting about Juipiters rotational period?

Answer 10

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Question 11

Essentially the Great Red Spot is

Answer 11

A large cyclonic storm (hurricane)

Question 12

Alternating zones of rising and sinking gas i Juipiters atmosphere

Answer 12

Create light and dark bands

Question 13

What is thought to lie at the center of Juipiter

Answer 13

A massive core of rocky materials with some iron mixed in

Question 14

Which of The Galilean moons is the the densest and most geologically active?

Answer 14

Io

Question 15

The surface of which Jovian moon most resembles the pack ice of the Article Ocean?

Answer 15

Europa

Question 16

Of the Glalilean moons, the one with striking grooved terrain and icy tectonic features as well as older craters is:

Answer 16

Ganymede

Question 17

Which of the Jovian moons is the largest moon in the solar system even bigger than mercury

Answer 17

Ganymede

Question 18

What are saturns rings

Answer 18

Small icy particles moving in orbit around Saturn

Question 19

The Roche limit is the point at which

Answer 19

The external tidal forces on an object become greater than the internal forces that hold it together

Question 20

How many large moons does Saturn have

Answer 20

6

Question 21

What is interesting about saturns large moon Titan

Answer 21

It has an atmosphere

Question 22

T/F Changes is the predicted motion of Uranus led to the search for an eight planet

Answer 22

T

Question 23

The only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune was

Answer 23

Voyager 2

Question 24

Uranus was discovered

Answer 24

Less than 250 yrs ago

Question 25

Which 3 played a role in the finding of Neptune

Answer 25

Adams leverrier and galle

Question 26

The planet Uranus is

Answer 26

Barely visible with the naked

Question 27

In terms of axial tilt which of the Jovians shows us the largest inclination

Answer 27

Uranus

Question 28

T/F All known asteroids can be found in the asteroid belt

Answer 28

F

Question 29

T/F Pluto is probably one of the largest of the Kuiper belt bodies beyond Neptune

Answer 29

T

Question 30

The orbits of most asteroids

Answer 30

Lie entirely beyond the orbit of Mats

Question 31

What is the typical size of most known asteroids

Answer 31

A few kilometers

Question 32

What are dactyl gaspra Mathilda Eros and Ida

Answer 32

The only four asteroids explored by spacecraft to date

Question 33

The orbits of most comets

Answer 33

Lie almost entirely beyond the orbit of Neptune

Question 34

What are comets made of

Answer 34

All of the above

Question 35

The Oort Cloud is thought to be

Answer 35

The spherical cloud of comets and some larger icy bodies surrounding the outer solar system

Question 36

The Kuiper Belt Object so hav orbits that

Answer 36

Stay out just beyond Neptune and close to the elliptic

Question 37

The largest Kuiper belt body is

Answer 37

Eris

Question 38

The Perseid meteor shower gives us about a meteor every minute in mid

Answer 38

August

Question 39

Few _____ actually strike the earth because most are small and burn up in the atmosphere

Answer 39

Meteors

Question 40

Most meteor showers occur ____, as we again intersect the comets orbit..

Answer 40

Bianually