A | B |
Largest Moon in Solar System | Ganymede |
Two planets without moons | Mercury & Venus |
Terrestrial Planets (def) | Earthlike planets, similar in origin & composition |
4 Inner Planets | Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars |
4 Outer Planets | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune |
Inner Planets (def) | Planets between the sun & asteroid belt |
Outer Planets (def) | Planets that are further away than the asteroid belt |
Planet with the shortest year | Mercury |
2 Planets sometimes seen as morning or evening stars | Mercury & Venus |
Messenger of the Roman Gods | Mercury |
Planet with a day longer than its year | Venus |
Planet with retrograde rotation | Venus |
Planet with the slowest rotation | Venus |
Earth's Twin | Venus |
Only planet with water in all 3 phases of matter | Earth |
Only planet with evidence of life | Earth |
Latin for Earth | Terra |
Greek for Earth | Geo |
Red Planet | Mars |
Planet with a tilt most like Earth's | Mars |
Planet with a length of day most like Earth's | Mars |
Planet with 2 Moons | Mars |
Planet with the largest known volcano in the solar system | Mars |
Name of the largest volcano in the solar system | Olympus Mons |
2 Moons of Mars | Phobos & Deimos |
Meaning of the names of the Martian Moons | Fear & Panic |
Jovian Planet (def) | Jupiter like planet, less dense than terrestrial planets, larger & gaseous |
2 Most abundant gases of Jovian planets | Hydrogen & Helium |
3 Characteristics true of all Jovian planets | Large planet, Gaseous planet, Ringed planet |
Roche Limit (def) | Distance from a planet that determines whether a moon or ring system is formed by orbiting debris; debris within the Roche Limit forms rings due to the planets gravity; Debris outside the Roche limit forms Moons |
Largest Planet | Jupiter |
Planet with the shortest day | Jupiter |
2 Planets that radiate more heat back into space then they recieve from the sun | Jupiter & Saturn |
Planet with the Great Red Spot | Jupiter |
Planet with the Galiean Moons | Jupiter |
Name the 4 Galiean Moons | Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto |
Comet that impacted Jupiter in 1994 | Comet Shoemaker-Levy |
Largest moon in the solar system | Ganymede |
Largest moon of Jupiter | Ganymede |
Least dense planet | Saturn |
Planet with the most spectacular ring system | Saturn |
Largest moon of Saturn | Titan |
Moon of Saturn that has a substancial atmophere | Titan |
2 Planets with a blue-green color due to methane in their atmospheres | Uranus & Neptune |
Planet that rotates on its side | Uranus |
Planet with the Great Dark Spot | Neptune |
Largest moon of Neptune | Triton |
The furthest planet from the sun | Neptune |
Meteorite (def) | the part of a meteoroid that did not totally burn up & strikes the Earth, sometimes making a crater |
Order of the Planets from the sun | Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroid belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune |