Third Quiz

Question 1

What are the terrestrial planets?

Answer 1

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars

Question 2

What are the Jovian planets?

Answer 2

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

Question 3

What is the most obvious difference between terrestrial and Jovian planets?

Answer 3

Size

Question 4

What makes up the interiors of planets?

Answer 4

gases, rocks, and ices

Question 5

What makes up the atmosphere of Jovian planets?

Answer 5

Hydrogen, helium, methane, and ammonia

Question 6

What makes up the atmosphere of terrestrial planets?

Answer 6

They are lacking

Question 7

What is the nebula?

Answer 7

A cloud of gas and/or dust in space

Question 8

What is the nebular theory?

Answer 8

The sun and planets formed from a rotating disk of dust and gases

Question 9

What is Mercury known as?

Answer 9

The innermost and second smallest planet from the sun

Question 10

What is prominent about Mercury’s surface?

Answer 10

Has cratered highlands, smooth terrain, and resemble the moon’s maria

Question 11

What is unique about Mercury’s temperature?

Answer 11

Mercury has the greatest temperature extremes of any planet

Question 12

Why is Venus referred to as “Earth’s twin”?

Answer 12

It is similar in size, density, mass and location

Question 13

What is prominent about Venus’s surface?

Answer 13

It is covered in thick clouds that visible light cannot penetrate

Question 14

What is different in Mars’s atmosphere?

Answer 14

Despite it being thin with dust storms, it causes color changes

Question 15

What is unique about Jupiter’s size?

Answer 15

Jupiter is 2 1/2 times greater than the mass of all the other planets and moons combined

Question 16

What is unique about The Great Spot of Jupiter?

Answer 16

It is the size of two earth circles

Question 17

In Jupiter’s satellite system, how many moons are there?

Answer 17

63 moons

Question 18

What was the story behind Jupiter’s ring system?

Answer 18

It is one of the most unexpected discoveries made by Voyager 1

Question 19

What is prominent about Saturn?

Answer 19

The system of rings

Question 20

What is another unique feature of Saturn?

Answer 20

Winds roaring at up 1500 km per hour

Question 21

What is unique about Saturn’s moon?

Answer 21

Titan is the largest moon and is bigger than Mercury

Question 22

What is Uranus’s prominent feature?

Answer 22

Axis of rotation

Question 23

What is Neptune’s prominent feature?

Answer 23

Winds exceed 1000 km per hour and is one of the windiest

Question 24

What is unique about pluto?

Answer 24

It’s orbit is highly eccentric and occasionally travels inside Neptune

Question 25

What is an asteroid?

Answer 25

A small rocky body whose diameter can range from a few hundred km to less than a km

Question 26

Where do most asteroids lie in?

Answer 26

Between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune

Question 27

What are comets made of?

Answer 27

Rocky and metallic pieces held together by frozen gases

Question 28

Where do comets generally revolve?

Answer 28

About the sun in elongated orbits

Question 29

What do some comets develop?

Answer 29

A tail that extends for millions of km

Question 30

What is the most famous short-period comet?

Answer 30

Hailey with 76 years of orbit

Question 31

What is the Kuiper belt?

Answer 31

Most move in nearly circular orbits that lie roughly in the same plane as planets

Question 32

What is the Oort cloud?

Answer 32

Long orbit period that is distributed in all directions which formed a spherical shell

Question 33

What is a meteoroid?

Answer 33

A small solid particle that travels through space

Question 34

What is a meteor?

Answer 34

When a meteoroid enters earth atmosphere and burns up

Question 35

What is a meteorite?

Answer 35

Any portion of a meteoroid that reaches earth's surface