Question | Answer |
Mercury | 1st Terrestrial Planet |
Venus | 2nd Terrestrial Planet |
Earth | 3rd Terrestrial Planet |
Mars | 4th Terrestrial Planet |
Jupitar | 1st Gaseous Planet |
Saturn | 2nd Gaseous Planet |
Uranus | 3rd Gaseous Planet |
Neptune | 4th Gaseous Planet |
Pluto | Possibly not a planet, but a moon of Neptunes or an asteroid |
Mercury | 1/3 diamer of Earth |
Mercury | 1/20 mass of Earth |
Mercury | Less than 1/2 diameter of Earth |
Mercury | Temperature ranges from Very Hot to Very Cold |
Mercury | 1st of 2 planets with no moon |
Mercury | Closest planet to the sun |
Mercury | small planet with rocky craters |
Mercury | 2nd smallest planet |
Venus | Hottest planet |
Venus | Covered with fast moving sulfuric acid clouds |
Venus | Visable as a morning and evening star |
Venus | Almost same size and mass as the Earth |
Venus | Rotates in an opposite direction of other planets |
Venus | Diameter is 7560 miles |
Venus | Turns slowly: 243 earth days = 1 day on this planet |
Venus | Shows phases when looked at through telescope |
Earth | Diameter = 7980 miles |
Earth | Planet with the densest body |
Earth | Only planet that supports life |
Mars | Mass is 1/10 of that of the Earths |
Mars | Atmosphere is primarily carbon dioxide |
Mars | Gravitational pull like the Earth |
Mars | Red planet due to iron core |
Mars | Dry, rocky, dusty, impact crater, frozen ground |
Mars | Terrestrial planet with 2 moons |
Mars | 1/2 size of the Earth |
Jupiter | Largest planet |
Jupiter | 318 X's the mass of the Earth |
Jupiter | 11X's the diameter of the Earth |
Jupiter | 3rd or 4th brightest object in the sky, after the Moon and Venus - Famous Red Spot |
Jupiter | Primarily made up of gas |
Jupiter | 5th planet from the sun |
Jupiter | Appears to have bands of color: created by slight chemical and temperature differences |
Jupiter | bands of color: light bands called Zones and dark ones called Belts |
Saturn | 2nd largest planet |
Saturn | Has 18 moons |
Saturn | 9.4 X's the diameter of the Earth |
Saturn | 95X's the mass of the Earth |
Saturn | Has rings that consist of rock and ice |
Uranus | 3rd largest planet |
Uranus | Lays on side and rolls around the sun |
Uranus | Mostly made up of methane gas |
Uranus | Has extreme seasons |
Uranus | Orbits on its side |
Uranus | Frozen planet with a molten core |
Uranus | Has 22 moons |
Uranus | It is 4X's the diameter of the Earth |
Uranus | Planet looks greenish in color from the Earth |
Uranus | It is 14.5X's the mass of the Earth |
Neptune | 4th largest planet |
Neptune | Gasseus, giant, frigid blue |
Neptune | 3.8X's the diameter of the Earth |
Neptune | It is 17X's the mass of the Earth |
Neptune | Gaseous planet with 2 moons |
Neptune | Has a great dark spot in the southern hemisphere |
Pluto | Has a strange oval shaped orbit |
Pluto | smallest planet: 2/3 diameter of the Earth |
Pluto | At times is closer to Neptune, making it the 8th planet |
Pluto | Has 1 moon |