Planet Facts

​7.03 - Our Solar System

Planet Compare – NASA Solar System Exploration

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According to this data table, which planet has the shortest day?

• Mercury

• Venus

• Jupiter

• Saturn

Match

Match the following number of moons with the correct planet

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planet-compare/

• Neptune

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Uranus

14

2

95

84

27

• 14

• 2

• 95

• 84

• 27

Multiple Choice

According to this data table, which planet has the longest day?

• Mercury

• Venus

• Jupiter

• Saturn

Multiple Choice

According to this data table, which planet has the longest year?

• Mercury

• Neptune

• Jupiter

• Saturn

Multiple Choice

According to this data table, which planet has the shortest year?

• Mercury

• Venus

• Jupiter

• Saturn

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Match the following planets with the atmospheric composition found there.

• Venus

• Mars

• Jupiter and Saturn

• Uranus and Neptune

• Earth

carbon dioxide, nitrogen

carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon

hydrogen, helium

methane, hydrogen, helium

nitrogen, oxygen, argon and other gases

• carbon dioxide, nitrogen

• carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon

• hydrogen, helium

• methane, hydrogen, helium

• nitrogen, oxygen, argon and other gases

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True or False - A human on Mercury would see the surface mostly as greyish-brown.

• True

• False

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Which of these are facts about Mercury?

• The smallest planet

• Hottest planet

• The surface is smooth but also contains cliffs, some hundreds of miles long and soaring up to a mile high

• Closest planet to the Sun

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Venus is not the closest planet to the Sun but it is the hottest planet. Why is this?

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• It has a thick atmosphere full of greenhouse gases that trap heat

• Because it is larger than Mercury and gets more light from the Sun

• It gets closer to the Sun than Mercury as it orbits the Sun

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True or False - Venus is shrouded in yellow clouds and photos snapped before landers we sent to Venus fried, show a lifeless, rocky landscape, and a sky of some shade of sulfur yellow.

• True

• False

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Which of these are facts about Venus?

• Because of its size, it is sometimes called Earth's Twin

• Hottest planet

• One of 2 planets that spins clockwise

• Second planet from the Sun

• Has a day longer than its year

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True or False - A human on Earth would see the surface mostly as blue, green, brown, white, and redish without all the man-made structures.

• True

• False

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Which of these are facts about Earth?

• The largest inner planet

• Only planet to have liquid water on the surface

• The atmosphere protects it from incoming meteoroids, and harmful UV rays

• Only planet know to support life.

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True or False - A human on Mars would see it as brown, gold, tan, and reddish-orange due to the iron minerals in the dirt rust, causing the surface to look red.

• True

• False

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Which of these are facts about Mars?

• The only planet we know of to be completely inhabited by robots

• There is water on Mars today that can be found in the form of water-ice just under the surface in the polar regions.

• Mars has the largest volcano in the solar system - Olympus Mons. It's three times taller than Earth's Mt. Everest

• Has a canyon system called Valles Marineris that is more than 3,000 miles, long which is 10 times the size of the Grand Canyon on Earth.

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