Venus

Venus is: YOU'D BETTER GET THIS QUESTION CORRECT~~~

• closer to the sun than Earth

• Further away from the sun than Earth

• Much larger than Earth

• Much smaller than Earth

Tim says that Venus has phases. Which of the following is a phase? DITTO ...

• Apogee

• Eclipse

• Crescent

• Sphere

Which of the following planets is smaller than Venus?????????

• Jupiter

• Mercury

• Earth

• Saturn

If you weigh 75 Kg on Earth, AND you weigh about 10% less on Venus, about how much would you weigh on Venus? DO THE MATH!

• 100 kg

• 81 kg

• 68 kg

• 37 kg

Tags

CCSS.7.EE.B.3

CCSS.7.RP.A.2

CCSS.7.RP.A.3

A day on Venus is equivalent to:

• 3 weeks on Earth

• 5 months on Earth

• 8 months on Earth

• 1 year on Earth

Tags

CCSS.5.MD.A.1

What do Venus and Earth have in common? BOTH HAVE SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE , BUT ONLY EARTH HAS A MAGNETIC FIELD AROUND IT.

• strong magnetic field

• an iron core

• a nitrogen rich atmosphere

• an abundance of liquid water

if you stepped onto the surface of Venus, you would probably:

• melt

• freeze

• float away

• be pulled into the core

What happens to most of the heat energy from the sun that strikes Venus

• it bounces back into space

• it gets trapped by the planets atmosphere in a greenhouse effect

• it get transformed into electromagnetic energy

• it transforms into dense clouds of sulfuric acid

What can you infer about the spacecraft that have visited Venus? HOPEFULLY, YOU KNOW THAT NO SPACECRAFT CAN LAND ON A PLANET WHOSE SURFACE TEMPERATURE IS 400* C.

• they were unmanned

• they were lightweight

• they burned up in the atmosphere

• they were unable to transmit data to earht

What do you need to see Venus in the night sky? YOU WERE TOLD THIS IN THE BEGINNING OF THE VIDEO, PAY ATTENTION!

• binoculars

• telescope

• radio telescope

• nothing = you can see it with your eyes