Review of Other Worlds An Intro to the Solar System

Which planet in the solar system has not been examined by spacecraft instruments that have either flown by or orbited them?

• Earth

• Neptune

• Venus

• you can't fool me, spacecraft have visited all the planets in our solar system

• Saturn

In the far future, a visiting tourist from another planetary system asks to see the most massive object in our solar system.  Where would you take him/her/it?

• the Sun

• Jupiter

• the asteroid belt

• Comet Halley

• Neptune

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All the planets (without exception)

• have solid surfaces

• have atmospheres much thicker than Earth’s

• have satellites orbiting around them

• revolve around the Sun in the same direction

• rotate on their axes in the same direction that they revolve around the Sun

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The first trans-Neptunian object astronomers found (in 1930) is called

• Uranus

• Pluto

• Eris

• Ceres

Which of the following ways that jovian (giant) planets differ from the terrestrial planets is NOT CORRECT?

• jovians have more mass than the terrestrials

• jovians are further from the Sun than terrestrials

• jovians are made of lighter elements on average than terrestrialsjovians are made of lighter elements on average than terrestrials

• jovians have rings while terrestrials do not

•  jovians (being larger) rotate significantly more slowly than terrestrials

You are the captain of an interplanetary tour ship and a wealthy tourist from Texas asks you to take him to see only the "largest darn planets" in the solar system.  Which of the following would you NOT include in your tour?

• Mercury

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Neptune

• Uranus

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Which of the following characteristics do all four terrestrial planets have in common?

• the all have one or more moons

• all have liquid water on their surfaces

• they all rotate in 24 hours or less

• they all have solid surfaces with signs of geological activity on them

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Of the following planets, which do NOT have satellites (moons)?

• Mars

• Venus

• Earth

• Jupiter

Generally, planets and moons in our solar system are named after

• great writers and poets from the past

• gods and goddesses from mythology

• the political leaders of ancient Greece and Rome

• leading scientists from long ago

• whatever astronomers want

The smaller objects in the solar system made of rock and metal (most of which orbit between Jupiter and Mars) are called:

• Comets

• satellites

• Titius-Bode objects

• asteroids

• silicates

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