planet quiz

Question 1

What makes outer planets unique?

Answer 1

Gas giants, rings, lots of moons

Question 2

List planets in order (begin with the one closest to Sun)

Answer 2

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Question 3

Hottest and coldest planet (why?)

Answer 3

Hottest=Venus, because it is the brights one

Coldest=Neptune farthest from the sun

Question 4

Ptolemaic theory

geocentric

Answer 4

people thought that planets and sun revolve around it

Question 5

Copernicus’s theory

heliocentric

Answer 5

that everything revolved around the sun

Question 6

Longest day?

Answer 6

Venus

Question 7

shortest day?

Answer 7

Jupiter

Question 8

Longest/shortest year (why?)

Answer 8

Neptune farthest from the sun, Mercury closest to the sun

Question 9

Which 2 planets have a retrograde rotation?

Answer 9

Venus & Uranus

Question 10

What planet is the 2nd largest, but has the lowest density?

Answer 10

Saturn

Question 11

Which planet is tilted on its side (98°)?

Answer 11

Uranus

Question 12

Largest inner and the largest outer planet?

Answer 12

Earth, Jupiter

Question 13

3 BLUE planets (why?)

Answer 13

Earth (water), Neptune & Uranus (methane)

Question 14

Meteoroid

Answer 14

small pieces of comets or asteroids in space

Question 15

Meteor

Answer 15

burning up in the atmosphere (inaccurate to say “falling/shooting star”)

Question 16

Meteorite

Answer 16

hits the ground (MAY make a crater)