How
well
do
you know
your SOLAR SYSTEM?
100

This is a process that helped shape an inner planet when an object hits a planet's surface so fast that if causes an explosion

What is impact cratering?

100

This is the process that shaped an inner planet that changed a crust due to hot materials underneath

What is tectonics?

100

This is one thing that asteroids and comets have in common

What is they both orbit the sun?

100

True or False: The inner planets have just as many moons as the gas giants?

What is false?

100

This is Earth's average distance from the sun, or 1 AU

What is 93 million miles?

200

This is what the rings around planets are made of

What is primarily ice?

200

Explain the atmosphere of the gas giants? What force made the atmosphere of the gas giants possible?

What is the atmosphere is so large there is alot of mass. The HUGE gravitational force from such a large mass is enough to pull the atmosphere together and make it very dense. Inside: More dense that water

Outside: less dense  - - like Earth!  

200

The final steps in how the solar system was formed is

What is the frozen gases and bits of dust stuck together in clumps. These large clumps became planets?

200

This is one way thing that all planets have in common with each other

* Answers will vary

200

These are all the items included in our Solar System

What is Our star (sun), planets, dwarf planets, dozens of moons, millions of asteroids, comets, meteorites....

EVERYTHING BOUND BY GRAVITY!

300

True or false: The sizes of the inner planets and the gas giants are about the same

What is false?

300

This is the atmosphere for the gas giants

What is the atmosphere is very deep, made mostly of hydrogen, helium, and other gases. The atmosphere composes most of the planets. 

300

This is the process that helped to shape an inner planet that when molten rock moves from a planet's hot interior onto its surface

What is volcanism?

300

The temperature on Venus is usually the same because

What is of its dense atmosphere?

*Venus' atmosphere is made of CO2 what slows the loss of energy and makes the surface hot

300

This is what comets are made primarily out of

What is ice?

400

This is one thing planets have in common with each other

*Answers will vary

400

A meteor is

What is a bright streak of light from a falling space object?

400

How is Jupiter not affected by volcanism, weathering and erosion, or tectonics?

What is Jupiter is made out of gas, not rock. There is no solid surface for these processes to take place. While there are strong winds, there is no surface to affect?

400

This is a process that shaped the inner planet's rocky crust when small impacts break down rocks and the broken material is moved by a group of processes

What is weathering and erosion?

400
This is why there are not longer active volcanoes on Mercury

What is Mercury's huge iron core shrunk when it cooled? *It's interior has cooled off

500

This is how the atmosphere was formed for the terrestrial planets

What is formed from gases poured out of volcanoes. On Venus, Earth, and Mars, hydrogen and helium escape?

500

This is how a moon is different than a planet

What is a moon is in orbit around a planet

or

a moon is smaller than its planet?

500

This is what happened when Mars' mantle moved and pushed up the surface

What is tectonic processes caused large, raised areas?

500

This is the first step in how the solar system was formed

What is a huge cloud of different gases and specks of dust were flattened into a disk?

500

This is what AU stands for

What is Astronomical Unit?