Chapter 19- Planets

Question 1

spiral galaxy is the location of?

Answer 1

The Milky Way

Question 2

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are?

Answer 2

Terrestrial Planets

Question 3

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are all called?

Answer 3

Jovian/ Gas Giants

Question 4

Pluto, Eris, and Ceres are examples of?

Answer 4

A dwarf planet

Question 5

Closets to the sun and the smallest, short year and long day, moon like surface, craters indicate very age to surface, no recent geologic activity, no atmosphere and great temperature extremes between day and night is an example of

Answer 5

Mercury

Question 6

What is the composition and relative mass of Sun?

Answer 6

A solar flare and 99.85% mass of solar system in sun

Question 7

2nd planet from the Sun and the 6th largest, bright object in the sky After the sun and the moon (albedo), earth’s twin in size & mass, thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide, average temperature of 450 degrees Celsius, clouds of Carbon dioxide is an example for?

Answer 7

Venus

Question 8

3rd planet from the Sun, its color are blue, green, brown and white. Minimum and maximum temperatures on surface. Also can see the Grand Canyon outer space are all characteristics of?

Answer 8

Earth

Question 9

White= anorthosite, black= basalt, surface covered with breccia, impact craters, mare are basalts, surface covered with craters- ancient surface. Moon is made up of rocky material, erupted through volcanoes and crushed by meteorite impacts is an example of?

Answer 9

The Moon

Question 10

4th planet from sun, bright object in sky, (Greek Ares)is the God of War, evidence of running water, atmosphere of carbon dioxide that is very thin compared to earth, is an example of?

Answer 10

Mars

Question 11

Largest volcano in solar system, shield volcano, maybe plume origin, made of basalt, 78,000 feet tall is describing what?

Answer 11

Olympus Mons

Question 12

Largest valley in solar system, rift or running water origin, braided stream pattern at mouth is an example of?

Answer 12

Valleys Marineris

Question 13

Largest planet, composed of hydrogen and helium, bright object in sky, Great Red Spot 300 year old storm, Comet shoemaker- levy impact is an example of?

Answer 13

Jupiter

Question 14

Moon of Jupiter, tidal forces between Jupiter and Europa have melted most of Io, most active volcanoes in the solar system, sulfur causes colors is an example of which moon?

Answer 14

Io

Question 15

Large moon of Jupiter with icy crust 60-100 km thick, may be water ocean under icy crust is an example of which moon?

Answer 15

Europa

Question 16

It’s the 6th planet from sun, gas giant/ Jovian, rings of ice covered rocks, many moons (Titan is the main moon) it is called?

Answer 16

Saturn

Question 17

It’s the 7th planet from the Sun, Jovian/ gas Giant, blue color caused methane in atmosphere this planet is called?

Answer 17

Uranus

Question 18

It’s the 8th planet from the Sun, Jovian/ gas giant , blue color caused by methane in atmosphere, Great Dark spot is giant storm this planet is called?

Answer 18

Neptune

Question 19

Chunks of broken up planet or objects located between orbits of Mars and Jupiter, some do cross earth’s orbit are called?

Answer 19

Asteroids

Question 20

Dirty snowballs, mixture of ice and rocks, large orbits with Sun at one end, tails from near Sun is called?

Answer 20

Comets

Question 21

Stony, iron, stony-iron are the three types, finding and ID of meteorites Meter Crater, Arizona, Impacts on Earth- destroyed dinosaurs 65 million years ago is called?

Answer 21

Meteorites