WorksheetsAtmospheres of the 9 Planets - Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
Use the word bank (Inner planets, Outer planets, Jupiter, Neptune, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Pluto, Mars, Earth, Uranus) to choose the best match: Planets made up mainly of light elements such as hydrogen and helium.
Inner planets
Outer planets
Jupiter
Earth
Mars
Use the word bank (Inner planets, Outer planets, Jupiter, Neptune, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Pluto, Mars, Earth, Uranus) to choose the best match: No atmosphere; no weather.
Venus
Mercury
Pluto
Mars
Earth
Use the word bank (Inner planets, Outer planets, Jupiter, Neptune, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Pluto, Mars, Earth, Uranus) to choose the best match: Unique because surface temperature allows water to exist as solid, liquid and gas.
Earth
Mars
Venus
Mercury
Use the word bank (Inner planets, Outer planets, Jupiter, Neptune, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Pluto, Mars, Earth, Uranus) to choose the best match: Thick clouds of sulfuric acid and carbon dioxide surround it and trap energy from the sun.
Venus
Mercury
Earth
Mars
Use the word bank (Inner planets, Outer planets, Jupiter, Neptune, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Pluto, Mars, Earth, Uranus) to choose the best match: Made of rock and ice.
Pluto
Neptune
Mercury
Saturn
Use the word bank (Inner planets, Outer planets, Jupiter, Neptune, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Pluto, Mars, Earth, Uranus) to select all that apply: 2 planets whose atmospheres contain the gases hydrogen and helium.
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Use the word bank (Inner planets, Outer planets, Jupiter, Neptune, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Pluto, Mars, Earth, Uranus) to choose the best match: Solid, rocky bodies with a thin atmosphere compared to the outer planets.
Inner planets
Outer planets
Jupiter
Saturn
Use the word bank (Inner planets, Outer planets, Jupiter, Neptune, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Pluto, Mars, Earth, Uranus) to choose the best match: Atmosphere is made up mostly of carbon dioxide with some nitrogen and argon.
Mars
Venus
Mercury
Earth
Use the word bank (Inner planets, Outer planets, Jupiter, Neptune, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Pluto, Mars, Earth, Uranus) to select all that apply: 2 planets with atmospheres made mostly of hydrogen, helium and methane.
Uranus
Neptune
Jupiter
Saturn
Compared to Neptune, Mars
Is larger in size and takes longer to travel around the Sun.
Is smaller in size and takes less time to travel around the Sun
Is smaller in size and takes the same amount of time to travel around the Sun
Takes the same amount of time to travel around the Sun and is the same size.
Planets that are closest to the Sun are identified as
low-density jovian planets
low-density terrestrial planets
high-density jovian planets
high-density terrestrial planets
The 4 Rocky Planets are
Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Mars
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
Compared to the terrestrial planets, the Jovian
planets are
(1) larger and less dense
(2) smaller and more dense
(3) closer to the Sun and less rocky
(4) farther from the Sun and more rocky
The Earth is the ________ largest planet in the solar system.
