Planets

Which of the following is the correct order for the terrestrial planets, closest to farthest from the sun?

• Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury

• Mars, Earth, Venus Mercury

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

• Venus, Earth, Mars, Mercury

Which of these correctly compares the orbits of planets around the sun?

• Earth's orbit around the sun is the longest

• Jupiter's orbit around the sun is the shortest

• All the planets' orbits around the sun are similar in shape and length

• Mercury and Venus have shorter orbits around the sun than Earth does.

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Which terrestrial planets have diameters that are nearly equal in size?

• Earth and Mars

• Mars and Venus

• Earth and Venus

• Mars and Mercury

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Which of these statements is true of Venus?

• Venus has two moons

• On Venus, a day is longer than a year.

• Venus is the fourth planet from the sun

• Venus is capable of supporting life

What is a gas giant?

• a large, red star

• a cloud in space made of gas and dust

• a planet that has a deep, massive atmosphere

• a rock from space that reaches Earth's surface without burning up

What can you conclude about the period of rotation of the gas giant planets?

• The largest gas giant planet rotates the fastest.

• The smallest gas giant planet rotates the fastest.

• The planet with the least gravity rotates the fastest.

• The planet with the largest axial tilt rotates the fastest.

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Weight depends on the force of gravity. The greater the mass of the planet, the greater its gravitational attraction will be, and the greater the weight of objects on that planet will be. On which planet would you weigh less than you would on Earth?

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Uranus

• Neptune

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Satellite photos of both Neptune and Uranus show that both planets have a bluish color. Which gas in their atmospheres gives them this color?

• helium

• hydrogen

• methane

• water

How does the distance of Earth from the sun compare to the distance of the gas giant planets from the sun?

• Earth is much closer to the sun than the gas giant planets

• Earth is much farther from the sun than the gas giants are

• Earth and the gas giants are about the same distance from the sun

• Earth is located within the solar system with the sun, and the gas giants are located outside the solar system.

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What property of the gas giant planets would account for their having more moons than the number of moons that orbit the Earth?

• Gas giants rotate more rapidly than Earth, so they eject more material that could form natural satellites

• Gas giants are less dense than Earth, so they contain less material that could form natural satellites

• Gas giants are more massive than Earth and thus have greater gravitational forces, so they could attract more objects.

• Gas giants are farther from the sun than Earth, so there are fewer objects in that part of space to attract into orbits.

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