"Ice Giants"

2 Planets that are known as the "ICE GIANTS"

• pluto

  neptune

• neptune

  Uranus

• Uranus

  Mars

• Neptune

  Jupiter

The temperature of Neptune is

• -371 F

• -371 C

• -361 C

• -361 F

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

The temperature of Uranus

• 371 F

• 361 C

• 361 F

• 371 C

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

The "Ice Giants" are cold because

• They do not have an atmosphere to trap in sunlight

• The inner core of the planets have lost magnetism, attracting cosmic reays

• They are a great distance away from the Sun

• The nuclear fission has ceased

Scientist believe these planets started out

• close to the hot SUN

• Far away from the hot SUN

The 97.8 degree "tilt" of URANUS, was caused by

• gravity inversion

• collision with another planet

• wind

• magnetism

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What causes the dark spot on Neptune?

• giant crater formed by an asteroid

• smoke

• wind

• volcano

The elements that compose the atmosphere of the Ice Giants

• Hydrogen and Krypton

• Hydrogen and Helium

• Helium and methane

• Helium and Argon

An Astronomical Unit is the distance

• across planet Earth

• the distance from Earth to Sun

• the distance from Uranus to Neptune

• the distance across our solar system

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

How many AU's is the distance across Neptune

• 1

• 10

• 100

• 1000

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3