Gas Giant Planets

Question 1

Clouds run from East to West

Answer 1

Jupiter

Question 2

Icy surface, oceans of liquid of water beneath its surface

Answer 2

Europa, Jupiter’s moon

Question 3

Atmosphere of nitrogen with traces of methane and ethane, and crust of ice with lakes and ponds filled with liquid methane

Answer 3

Titan, Saturn’s moon

Question 4

Disk of material that circles a planet and consists of orbiting particles.

Answer 4

Planetary ring system

Question 5

It has icy surface and liquid water flows up through the cracks forming spectacular geysers

Answer 5

Enceladus, Saturn’s moon

Question 6

For 21 years the North Pole faces the Sun and South Pole is in complete darkness and after another 21 years, the South pole faces the Sun and North Pole is in complete darkness for 21 years. In Spring and Fall, there is daytime and nighttime like Earth

Answer 6

Uranus

Question 6

Every place on this planet has winter periods of complete darkness and summer periods of constant daylight

Answer 6

Uranus

Question 7

It ejects lava and geysers of sulfur compounds

Answer 7

Io, Jupiter’s moon

Question 7

The 2nd largest planet in the solar system

Answer 7

Saturn

Question 8

It has fast winds (540 km/h)

Answer 8

Jupiter

Question 9

It has more than 60 moons , largest are Io, Europa, Callisto, Ganymede

Answer 9

Jupiter

Question 10

Known for planetary ring system formed by collision of its moons with comets and asteroids

Answer 10

Saturn

Question 11

It has the highest surface gravity and twice the mass of the other 7 planets of the solar system combined

Answer 11

Jupiter

Question 12

It is the largest planet in the solar system

Answer 12

Jupiter

Question 13

It has the fastest rotation around itself (once every 10 hours)

Answer 13

Jupiter

Question 14

Storms appear between cloud bands called “Great Red Spot”

Answer 14

Jupiter

Question 14

Most volcanically active place in the solar system, with more than 400 active volcanoes

Answer 14

Io , Jupiter’s moon

Question 15

Less dense than water

Answer 15

Saturn

Question 15

Rings are 500,000 km in diameter while only few km thick. The rings form bands with gaps, gaps can be occupied with moons

Answer 15

Saturn

Question 15

It’s the fifth largest moon for this planet and it looks strange as material from moon’s interior rises to its surface due to gravitational forces of planet pulling on the moon

Answer 15

Miranda, Uranus’s moon

Question 16

It has 27 moons and a ring system

Answer 16

Uranus

Question 17

Most distant planet from the Sun

Answer 17

Neptune

Question 18

Sunlight is 900 x fainter than Earth

Answer 18

Neptune

Question 19

High Noon (middle of day) is like twilight (dusk or sunset when there is very faint light) on Earth

Answer 19

Neptune

Question 20

This planet is almost the same size as Uranus

Answer 20

Neptune

Question 21

These two planets atmospheres’ have Hydrogen , Helium, and Methane and appear to be blue in color

Answer 21

Uranus and Neptune

Question 22

“Great Dark Spot” (Storm) was found in 1989 by Voyager 2 in this planet

Answer 22

Neptune

Question 23

No more great dark spot but other dark spots were found by Hubble Space Telescope in 1994 on this planet

Answer 23

Neptune

Question 24

It’s the largest moon for this planet and it orbits the planet in opposite direction of the planet’s orbit around the sun

Answer 24

Triton, Neptune’s moon

Question 25

This moon may explode due to the strong planet’s gravitational pull on it

Answer 25

Triton, Neptune’s moon

Question 26

Orbits the sun tilted on its side at 98 degrees

Answer 26

Uranus

Question 27

Rotates once every 84 years around the Sun

Answer 27

Uranus

Question 28

The atmosphere has methane giving the planet a green blue color

Answer 28

Uranus