WorksheetsGame 1
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 8mins
What planet has the longest length of a day?
Mercury
Neptune
Jupiter
Venus
What planet has the most extreme temperatures?
Mercury
Jupiter
Neptune
Neptune
Because self-gravity increases with the size of an object, larger bodies tend to be rounder.
True
False
Which of the following terrestrial planets has no LIQUID iron core?
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
What is is the angle between a planet's equatorial plane and its orbital plane.
(a)
It is an event that occurs when one object is hidden from the observer by another object that passes between them.
(a)
What planet was discovered as a result of the perturbations that it forced on the orbit of Uranus.
(a)
The accuracy of the perturbation method in estimating the mass of the object increases with distance.
True
False
Many smaller objects that orbit the Sun and the planets have much smaller orbital inclinations.
True
False
What planet has the lowest orbital inclination relative to the orbital plane of the Earth?
Mars
Jupiter
Uranus
Neptune
What is the other term for the orbital plane of the Earth?
(a)
According to the Titius-Bode Rule, inner planets formed by a process that caused the spacing of their orbits to follow a pattern that is duplicated by the rule.
The rule identifies this process.
True
False
It is the movement of a planet within itself
(a)
The Moon rotates and completes 1 revolution around the Earth every (a) days.
What is the most studied planet (outside the Earth) in the Solar System?
(a)
The following are rover missions sent to Mars, EXCEPT
Curiosity
MAVEN
Insight
Perseverance
What is the age of the Solar System (in By)?
4.65
4.55
4.57
4.56
It is the process by which the Sun creates energy.
nuclear fission
radiation
nuclear fusion
reaction
The time it takes our solar system to complete one orbit of the galaxy is referred to as the (a) .
The Kuiper Belt is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of (a) .
What planet has the fastest rotation?
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
It is the angle between the reference plane and orbital plane of a planet
(a)
What is the inclination (by degrees) of the Sun's equatorial plane with respect to the ecliptic plane?
6
7
8
9
The following planets move by prograde rotation EXCEPT
Neptune
Uranus
Mars
Mercury
Polar flattening is greatest for planets that have a low density and rapid rotation.
True
False
