Title: Mercury
1Mercury Venus
Which planets has these characteristics?
Saturn Mars
Vocabulary
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2Mercurys atmosphere is burnt off by this.
3What is solar wind.
4This is what Venuss atmosphere is mostly made up
off.
5What is Carbon Dioxide Sulfuric Acid.
6This is what causes Venus to be the hottest
planet in the solar system.
7What is the runaway greenhouse efffect.
8- Mercury has no volcanoes, no mountains, etc and
it also doesnt have wind, rain, thunderstorms,
etc. This makes mercury dead in 2 kinds of ways.
9- What is being geologically dead and
meteorologically dead.
10- These specific reasons are why Venus is called
Earths sister planet.
11- What is density, mass, diameter and escape
velocity.
12Distance from the sun 0.39 AU
Orbital period 3 months Surface Temperature 11
70 F
13 14Distance from the sun 1.5 AU Orbital period 1 y
ear 11 months
Surface Temperature varies
15What is Mars.
16These planets are known to have rings surrounding
them.
17- What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and neptune.
18These planets have short orbital periods, high
densities, low gravity and mostly made of rocks.
19- What are the Terrestrial planets.
20This planets orbit is eccentric and sometimes
turns into the 8th planet.
21 22- Mars is named after this person.
23 24- This is what Mars is called since it is the
biggest Terrestrial planet in the solar system.
25- What is Texas of the Terrestrial planets.
26- This is the belt between thhe orbits of Mars and
Jupiter.
27- What is the Asteroid Belt.
28This moon that belong to Saturn is bigger than
Mercury and has a thick atmosphere.
29What is Titan.
30- This is how many times Saturn has been around the
Sun since it was first discovered.
31What is one.
32 33What is eccentric.
34- Ions getting thrown away from the Sun.
35What is solar wind.
36 37What is retrogade rotation.
38- This is when moons reach a certain point where a
planets gravity tears at the moon from one side
and the gravity on the other side of the moon
tears it in half.
39What is the roche limit.
40- When a planet is made up of about the same amount
of Hydrogen and Helium as the Solar System.
41What is cosmic abundance.
42- This is the amount of Hydrogen and Helium
Jupiters made out of.
43How much is 79 Hydrogen and 20 Helium.
44- The Red Spot has been active for this amount of
years.
45What is 400 years.
46- This is an element found only in Jupiter.
47What is Metallic Hydrogen.
48- These moons of Jupiter were discovered by Galileo.
49- What are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Casllisto.
50- Jupiters magnetic field is this much times Earths
magnetic field.
51What is 800 times.