Space Club 5

Terrestrial Planets: Mercury and Venus

Fill in the Blank

What does the word TERRA mean in Latin?

Multiple Choice

Are TERRESTRIAL planets the same as INNER planets?

• Yes

• No

Draw

Mark Mercury on this picture.

Multiple Choice

The smallest planet in our solar system and nearest to the Sun, Mercury is only slightly larger than ____

• Mars

• Venus

• Moon

• Pluto

Multiple Choice

Which planet is Mercury?

Draw

Select the best color for Mercury and draw it.

Multiple Choice

In Roman myths, he is the god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence, messages, communication, travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery, and thieves.

• Mars

• Mercury

• Saturn

• Jupiter

Multiple Choice

Mercury shares a lot of characteristics with which Greek god?

• Aries

• Zeus

• Hermes

• Apollo

Multiple Choice

What color is the sky on Mercury?

Draw

Pick the color of the Mercury sky and paint the Mercury sky.

Multiple Choice

Is there air on Mercury?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Is Mercury the hottest planet in the Solar System?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Which one is the hottest then?

• Mars

• Earth

• Venus

• Jupiter

Multiple Choice

In Roman mythology, she was the goddess of love and beauty, the Roman Version of the Greek Goddess Aphrodite.

• Cassiopeia

• Andromeda

• Venus

• Valkiriya

​Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

Draw

Mark Venus on this picture.

Multiple Choice

Which planet is Venus?

Multiple Choice

How high can the daytime temperatures on Mercury rise?

• As hot as 300 F

• As hot as 500 F

• As hot as 700 F

• As hot as 800 F

​The Hottest Place on Earth

Multiple Choice

What is the highest record temperature on Earth, that was registered in Death Valley, California?

• 120 F

• 127 F

• 134 F

• 140 F

Multiple Choice

What is the lowest temperature on Mercury at night?

• - 290 F

• - 390 F

• - 490 F

• - 590 F

​The Coldest Place on Earth

Multiple Choice

What was the lowest temperature on Earth, registered in Russian Siberia, in 1983?

• - 100.6 F

• - 120.6 F

• - 128.6 F

• - 138.6 F

Draw

Select the best color for Venus and draw it.

Multiple Select

Where do we use lead?

Multiple Choice

Under what temperature does lead melt?

It is called melting point in chemistry.

• 500 F

• 621.3 F

• 700 F

• 800 F

Multiple Choice

Venus is the hottest planet. What is the highest temperature there?

• 880 F

• 500 F

• 800 F

• 900 F

Multiple Choice

Is temperature on Venus hot enough to melt lead?

• Yes

• No

Fill in the Blank

On Venus, the atmosphere is so thick, that moving your arms and legs would feel like moving through _____ .

Multiple Choice

Imagine yourself standing on Venus's surface in the bubble that shields you from all the armful elements on Venus. Would you be able to see the Sun?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Select

Select only the rocky planets.

• Mars

• Mercury

• Venus

• Jupiter

• Earth

Multiple Choice

Why do rocky planets are also called INNER planets?

• Because they are inside our solar system

• Because they have INNER core

• Because they lie within the asteroid belt that separates Mars and Jupiter

• Because they are located inside a magnetic field that surrounds the first 4 planets

Draw

Mark Mars on this picture.

Multiple Choice

As the earth turns, the sun seems to move across the sky. But it's actually not the sun, it's the earth that is spinning around.

• True

• False

• Luna

It's hard to believe the earth is always turning, because we don't feel any motion. Why is that?

• Boaz

Imagine you are in a spaceship high above the North Pole. What would you observe?

• Avielle

Describe the experiment that illustrates how we move from light to darkness.

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That's It for Today!