Ch 12 Solar System Review

Saturn's density is so low that the entire planet could float in water.

• True
• False

Earth's axis of rotation is almost parallel to the plane of its orbit.

• True
• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Venus experiences an intense greenhouse effect.

• True
• False

Io, the closest large moon to Saturn, is volcanically active.

• True
• False

Galileo discovered that the orbits in which planets move around the Sun are elliptical.

• True
• False

Ganymede is a volcano on the planet Jupiter.

• True
• False

The surface of Mars has long channels that may have been caused by flowing water.

• True
• False

A "shooting star", or meteor, is actually a meteoroid that burns up in Earth's atmosphere.

• True
• False

The Oort cloud is a large collection of comets that surrounds the solar system.

• True
• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The outer planets are small, rocky planets with iron cores.

• True
• False