Science 30.3-4

Question 1

What is the fifth planet from the sun?

Answer 1

Jupiter

Question 2

What is the sixth planet from the sun?

Answer 2

Saturn

Question 3

What is the seventh planet from the sun?

Answer 3

Uranus

Question 4

What is the eight planet from the sun?

Answer 4

Neptune

Question 5

What are round objects in orbit around the sun that are not satellites and that have not cleared the debris in their orbits?

Answer 5

Dwarf Planet

Question 6

What is composed of dust and rock particles, frozen water, methane, and ammonia?

Answer 6

Comet

Question 7

What is a rocky object formed from material similar to the material in planets composition?

Answer 7

Asteroid

Question 8

What is a sand - to bolder-sized objects in the solar system?

Answer 8

Meteoroid

Question 9

What is a distant planetoid?

Answer 9

Sedna

Question 10

What is life beyond Earth known as?

Answer 10

Extraterrestrial life

Question 11

Which space probes flew past Jupiter in 1979?

Answer 11

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2

Question 12

Which space probes reached Jupiter in 1995?

Answer 12

Galileo

Question 13

What did the Voyager probes and Galileo study?

Answer 13

They studied the composition, structure, and motion of Jupiter’s atmosphere

Question 14

How many known moons does Jupiter have?

Answer 14

63

Question 15

What are the 4 Galilean moons?

Answer 15

Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa

Question 16

Which of the Galilean moons is the largest in the solar system?

Answer 16

Ganymede

Question 17

Which of the Galilean moons most likely have water trapped beneath their surface?

Answer 17

Ganymede, Callisto, Europa

Question 18

Which of the Galilean moons is the most volcanically active object in the solar system?

Answer 18

Io

Question 19

What is Saturn’s most commonly known feature?

Answer 19

It’s rings

Question 20

What are Saturn’s rings made of?

Answer 20

Particles of water-ice

Question 21

How many moons does Saturn have at least?

Answer 21

60

Question 22

What is the name of Saturn’s largest moon?

Answer 22

Titan

Question 23

What is the name of the spacecraft that approached Saturn in 2004?

Answer 23

Cassini-Huygens

Question 24

What was Cassini’s mission?

Answer 24

To collect data about Saturn, it’s rings and it’s moons

Question 25

What was the Huygens mission?

Answer 25

To examine Titan’s surface

Question 26

Which space probe is the only probe to study Uranus?”

Answer 26

Voyager 2

Question 27

How many moons does Uranus have?

Answer 27

27

Question 28

Does Uranus have moons?

Answer 28

Yes

Question 29

How is Uranus’s axis tilt?

Answer 29

To where it is nearly parallel to the plane of the planet’s orbit

Question 30

What color is Uranus?

Answer 30

Blue-green

Question 31

Which space probe is the only probe to reach Neptune?

Answer 31

Voyager 2

Question 32

What makes Neptune a bluer color than Uranus?

Answer 32

The percentage of methane in it’s atmosphere

Question 33

How many moons does Neptune have?

Answer 33

13

Question 34

What is Neptune’s largest moon?

Answer 34

Triton

Question 35

What are the names of 3 Dwarf planets?

Answer 35

Pluto, Eris and Ceres

Question 36

What is the bright cloud around a comet?

Answer 36

Coma

Question 37

Where do comets originate?

Answer 37

Kuiper Belt, which is beyond Neptune’s orbit

Question 38

When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere, what are they called?

Answer 38

Meteors

Question 39

When a meteor strikes Earth’s surface, what are they called?

Answer 39

Meteorites

Question 40

What does AU stand for?

Answer 40

Astronomical Unit

Question 41

What is an AU equal?

Answer 41

150 million km