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Atmospheres
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Vocab
Features
100
The major compound in the atmospheres of Venus and Mars
What is Carbon Dioxide?
100
Luna mostly resembles this rocky planet.
What is Mercury?
100
The largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
100
Term given to the gaseous planets.
What is Jovian?
100
This is the most noticeable feature on Jupiter.
What is the Great Red Spot?
200
The largest component in Earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
200
The fourth planet from the Sun.
What is Mars?
200
This planet's color is the darkest blue of the solar system.
What is Neptune?
200
A term meaning "Earth-like."
What is terrestrial? 
200
The largest volcano in the solar system, despite being dormant.
What is Olympus Mons?
300
This element is the second largest component in the atmosphere of Saturn.
What is Helium?
300
This element can be found in the cores of the planets.
What is Iron?
300
This planet is tilted on its side.
What is Uranus?
300
This type of volcano is a result of forming over a hot spot.
What is shield?
300
This is a large impact feature on Mars.
What is Hellas Basin?
400
This compound can be found in the cloud layers of Saturn's atmosphere.
What is ammonia?
400
Volcanoes break through this layer of a planet.
What is the crust?
400

These two planets are known as the ice giants.

What are Uranus and Neptune?
400
This process caused the oceans of Venus to boil away (must be exact).
What is the RUNAWAY greenhouse effect?
400
This is a vast volcanic plateau in the Western hemisphere of Mars.
What is Tharsis Bulge (or Tharsis Region)?
500

This moon has a dense atmosphere.

What is Titan?
500
One name given to the object that possibly collided with the Earth that formed the Moon and current Earth.
What is Orpheus? (Thea is also acceptable).
500

This compound gives the blue gas planets their color.

What is methane?
500

This is the movement of a fluid; hotter material rises, cooler material sinks.

What is convection?
500
This is the name of the well-known "basin" on planet Mercury.
What is the Caloris Basin?