Definitions
What is a terrestrial planet?
A rocky or "Earth-like" planet!
What is a superior planet?
A planet that has an orbit farther away from the sun than the earth!
This planet reflects over 75% of the light that hits it!
Venus! Venus is very bright in the sky because it reflects so much light!
This planet has had a big storm on it since it was discovered almost 300 years ago.
Jupiter!
Mercury orbits the sun (faster or slower) than earth.
Faster!
What is a Jovian planet?
A gas or "Jupiter-like" planet!
What is a synchronous orbit?
When one heavenly body orbits around another heavenly body at the same time it takes to rotate on its axis! They look like they are always facing each other!
This plutoid was named by an 11-year-old schoolgirl from England.
Pluto!
This planet appears to be blue because of all the methane in it’s atmosphere
Neptune!
Mercury rotates on its axis (faster or slower) than earth.
Slower!
What is retrograde rotation?
When a heavenly body spins backwards!
Does our moon count as a satellite?
Yes! It is a heavenly body that orbits another heavenly body (Earth!)
This planet has a high amount of rust in its soil.
Mercury!
This planet orbits around the sun once every 365 days.
This planet is the faster spinning planet in the solar system. It rotates every 9 hours and 55 minutes!
Jupiter!
What is a satellite?
A heavenly body that orbits another heavenly body!
Saturn has a bulge in the middle because it spins (faster or slower) than Earth.
Faster! It spins so fast it squishes in the middle!
This planet spins on its side!
Uranus!
This planet was believed to be too hot to have water on it. But, in 1991, a small amount of ice was discovered in very deep craters.
Mars!
Saturn has a moon named Titan. What makes Titan different from other moons?
It has an atmosphere!
What is an inferior planet?
A planet that has an orbit closer to the sun than the earth!
The plutoid Eris is (bigger or smaller) than Pluto.
Bigger!
Galileo thought this planet looked like it had "ears" on it.
Saturn!
Venus is also know as the __________ and ___________ star.
Morning and evening star!
Neptune has a Great Dark Spot that is believed to be one of what two things?
Either a big storm or a hole in the atmosphere!