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100

What is the only terrestrial planet to have water?

Earth

100

What Jovian planet has a feature called the great red spot?

Jupiter

100
Between which two planets is the asteroid belt located?

Mars and Jupiter

100
Which is the largest planet?

Jupiter

100

What is Abe's favorite planet that is no longer a planet?

Pluto

200

What are the four terrestrial planets?

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

200
What is the surface of the Jovian planets like?

It is not solid because the planets are made of gases.

200

Where in the solar system is the Kuiper Belt located?

The very outer ring of the solar system.

200

Which is a larger planet, Earth or Mars?

Earth

200

Which planet has the most moons?

Saturn

300

Why are the terrestrial planets grouped together, separately from the jovian planets?

They are all made of rocky material rather than gaseous material.

300

Describe the weather on the Jovian planets.

All the planets are relatively cold with extremely high wind speeds and lots of storms.

300

What is the Kuiper Belt made of?

Icy and rocky particles left over from the formation of the universe, as well as some of the exoplanets.

300

Which planet has a thicker atmosphere, Venus or Earth?

Venus

300

Which planets do not have moons?

Mercury and Venus

400

What is the hottest terrestrial planet and why?

Venus- the atmosphere is made mostly of carbon dioxide so it traps heat really effectively

400

Explain what Saturn's rings are made of and how they formed.

Saturn's rings are made of ice and rock particles and are held in place by Saturn's gravitational pull.

400

Give an example of an exoplanet.

Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, etc.

400

Compare the weather on Mercury and Jupiter

Mercury has no weather because it has no atmosphere and Jupiter has high winds and many storms.

400

What is the largest non-planet object in the solar system?

Ceres- an exoplanet

500
Describe the temperatures on Mercury and explain why these patterns exist.
Temperatures on the lit side of Mercury are extremely hot because the Sun is close, and are extremely cold on the dark side because there is no atmosphere to spread out the heat from the Sun.
500

Which of the Jovian planets has an extremely tilt? Explain how this would affect the seasons on this planet.

Uranus- it would make the seasons extremely short and inconsisten.

500

Why are there fewer asteroids in the universe today than there were a billion years ago?

Because as time continues to progress, more and more asteroids collide with something, typically vaporizing in the process.

500

Compare the seasons on Mercury and Earth.

Mercury does not have seasons because the tilt of its axis is 0 degrees, but Earth is tilted at 23.5 degrees and has all four seasons due to differential sunlight at different times of the year.

500

Why do larger planets have more moons that smaller planets?

Larger planets have a larger gravitational pull than smaller planets because they have more mass, so they can hold more objects in orbit.