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Wandering Worlds
Question | Answer |
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Planets | They are always moving and they reflect light of the sun |
Inner planets | Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars |
Outer planets | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto |
Mercury | The planet closest to the sun. Also the speediest planet and the planet with the shortest orbit. Extreme temperatures |
Venus | Sometimes called morning or evening star. Planet closest to earth. Only planet on which a day is longer than a year. Rotates opposite from earth. Hottest planet |
Mars | Known as "red planet". Two moons called Phobos and Deimos. Desert and rugged terrain. Mountains and canyons bigger than ours. To cold for humans |
Jupiter | Largest planet, gas giant. Contains gigantic anticyclone called Great Red Spot. 16 moons |
Great Red Spot | Gigantic anticyclone located on Jupiter |
Ganymede | One of Jupiter's moons. Largest moon. Slightly smaller than Mars |
Europa | One of Jupiter's moons. Has an icy surface |
Callisto | One of Jupiter's moons. Icy and covered with craters |
Io | One of Jupiter's moons. Contains first active volcanoes ever discovered on another world |
Saturn | Contains rings that stretch 170,000 mi. across its equator. Least dense of all planets. 1100 mph winds. 20 moons |
Mimas | One of Saturn's moons. Pockmarked surface like a golf ball |
Iapetus | One of Saturn's moons. Follows a path that takes it millions of miles away from Saturn |
Phoebe | One of Saturn's moons. Travels east to west instead of west to east |
Titan | One of Saturn's moons. Contains an atmosphere composed of nitrogen much like earth |
Uranus | Third-largest planet. 15 moons orbit this planet. Its equator, ring system, and the orbits and equators of all its moons are nearly perpendicular to the plane of the solar system |
Miranda | One of Uranus' moons. Has a giant cliff 12 mi. high, over twice the height of Mt. Everest |
Neptune | Very short days. Methane gas makes it blue. Contains an earth-sized storm called Great Dark Spot. 8 moons |
Great Dark Spot | An earth-sized storm contained in Neptune |
Triton | One of Neptune's moons. Orbits it in a clockwise direction |
Pluto | The outermost planet. Frozen surface. Also the smallest planet. Charon orbits this planet |
Charon | Pluto's only moon. 1/2 the size of it. Classified as a double planet |