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What are the four terrestrial planets? |
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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars |
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What are the four jovian planets? |
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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune |
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A cloud of gas and/or dust in space |
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Which planet is known as the 'Red Planet'? |
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Which planet has the GREATEST temperature extremes? |
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Which planet is known as the "Earth's Twin"? |
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Which planet has rings made of 'moonlets' of ice and rock? |
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Which planet is a bluish planet? |
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Which planet is the sideways planet? |
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which planet has the moons Io, Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto? |
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About 80% of which planet's surface consists of plains covered by lava flows? |
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What is the name of Neptune's largest moon? |
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What is the name of Saturn's largest moon? |
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What 4 gases make up the atmospheres of the jovian planets? |
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Hydrogen, helium, methane, ammonia |
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A concentration of small celestial bodies in between Mars and Jupiter. |
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The use of mathematics facilitated the discovery of this planet. |
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This planet has many moons, including Titan, Dione, Tethys, and Mimas. |
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The fastest moving planet in the solar system. |
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The point in which the orbit of a planet or other body at which it comes closest to the sun. |
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