Solar System Review Game

1. Which planet’s day is longer than its year?2. Which planet has two moons? What are their

names?3. Which planet has six thin rings?4. What is the atmospheric composition of Pluto?

Nitrogen

5. Which planet has a diameter of 74,898 miles?Saturn

6. The tilt of Venus is:

Mars- Deimos and Phobos

Venus

Neptune

2.6°

1. What are Saturn’s rings made of?2. Why does Neptune occasionally become the

outer-most planet?3. Which planet has an extremely thick iron core?

Mercury4. What is the difference between an orbit and

revolution?Revolution is the time it takes for the object to go

around the Sun and orbit is the path that the objects follow to go around the Sun.

Ice, rock and dust

Because of Pluto’s tilted orbit

1. Which Planet has iron Oxide in its soil?2. Which planet is 800°F during the day and -290° at night? WHY?

Mercury-extremely thin atmosphere cannot retain heat3. Which planet was impacted by a planet-sized asteroid that knocked its tilt

to 98°?4. Which planet has a magnetic field 20,000 times larger than ours due to its

liquid metallic hydrogen outer core?5. Which planet was mathematically predicted to exist in 1846 using the

simple Law of Gravitation formula?6. Which planet is hotter than Mercury and WHY?

Venus- large amounts of CO2 block heat from escaping the surface (Greenhouse Effect)

7. Which planet has nitrogen rich moon named Titan?

8. Which moon of Jupiter is covered in active volcanoes and COULD have plate tectonics?

Mars

Uranus

Jupiter

Neptune

Saturn

Io

1. Which planet has 55 moons?Saturn

2. Which planet has the large volcano Maat Mons?Venus

3. Which planet has Ammonia ice on its surface?Uranus

4. Which planet has the Aphelion of 43 million miles?Mercury

5. Which terrestrial planet is 1.53 AU’s from the Sun?Mars

1. Which two gas giants appear blue due to their methane content?

2. Aside from Earth, which inner planet once had water?

3. How are comet’s obit different from planets?More elliptical- high eccentricity

4. Which inner planet does NOT show evidence of volcanoes?

5. Mars has __________ on its poles.

Uranus and Neptune

Mars

Mercury

Ice caps

1. What is the turning of an object on its axis?Rotation

2. What is an object got in the gravitational pull of a planet?

3. What are the large gaseous planets called?Jovian

4. What is the main composition of the Outer Planets?

5. What is the only planet that has a density less than 1.00, which means it would float in water!

Satellite

Hydrogen and Helium

Saturn