Outer planets
THe four outer planets of the solar system are known as the ____ ____
What is gas giants?
____ is the largest planet of all the planets.
What is Jupiter?
_____ is best know for its impressive system of rings that surround this faint greenish-coloured gas giant.
What is Saturn?
_____ was discovered by William Herschel in 1781.
What is Uranus?
_____ is often compared to a large, round, blue popsicle.
what is Neptune?
they are called the gas giants because they are the ____ ____ in our solar system and are made up of mostly ____
what is largest planets and gases?
Because _____ rotates so quickly, its gases are streched out into bands that go around the entire planet.
what is Jupiter?
Many satellites still orbit ____
what is Saturn?
Since ____ is tilted so much, its nouth and south poles experience 42 years of light and 42 years of darkness.
what is Uranus?
The heat that _____ produces creates hurricane-like storms on its frozen seas.
What is Neptune?
These gases surround a core of ____ and ____ in layers just like the layers in an onion.
what is rock and metal?
Jupiter has many ______, something like Earth's moon.
What are natural satellites?
Sometimes the rings look solid because they are made up of _____
what is space "snowballs"?
The third of the gas giants, Uranus is often called an ________ because its atmosphere is made up of different types of ice.
what is ice gas giant?
Around this rocky core is extremely cold water. like its neighbour Uranus, Neptune get its blue colour from _____
What is methane?
All the rings around the outer planets have ___ within them.
what is moons?
The white bands are made of frozen ____
What is Ammonia?
These _____ measure 260 000 km across, but are only 14 m in thickness.
What is Saturn rings?
It was the frist planet to be disovered using a telescope, this was an _____ _____
what is accidental discovery?
After Uranus was discovered, astronomers noticed that something was affecting its ____.
what is orbit?
The outer planets radaite ___ ___ into space than is released by the sun.
what is more energy?
Information from space probs has confirmed that Jupiter is also surrounded by ____ ____
What is thin rings?
Saturn does not have a _____ and it has _____ just like its neighbours.
What is solid surface and different-coloured spots?
Uranus is often called an ___ ___ ___ because its atmosphere is made up of different types of ices.
what is ice gas giants?
Neptune is about 4.3 billion km form the sun so any energy it gets from the sun is ____ _____ then what we get on _____
what is muchless and Earth?