Planet Earth

Part Two: Our Solar System

Let’s Review! (Section 1)

1.) How many planets are there in our Solar System?

a) 11b)10c) 9d)8

Let’s Review! (Section 1)2.) What are the two classifications that we can divide the planets in our Solar System into?

a) Rock and Innerb) Gas and Outerc) Inner and Outerd) Innie and Outtiee) Rock and Gas

Let’s Review! (Section 1)3.) What are the names of the planets in our Solar System?

a) M___________ f.) S_______________b) V___________ g.) U______________c) E___________ h.) N______________d) M __________ i.) P______________e) J____________

Let’s Review! (Section 1)

4.) Which planets are the Rocky planets?

a)Earth f.) Neptuneb) Jupiter g.) Plutoc) Mars h.) Uranusd)Mercury i.) Venuse)Saturn

Let’s Review! (Section 1)

5.) Which planets are the Gas planets?

a)Earth f.) Neptuneb) Jupiter g.) Plutoc) Mars h.) Uranusd)Mercury i.) Venuse)Saturn

Section 2: What’s in a

Name?

Let’s Review! (Section 2)1.) How did the planets and their moons get their

names? a) From America’s Got Talent

b) From Persian and African Mythology

c) From Greek and Russian Mythology

a)From Greek and Roman Mythology

Let’s Review! (Section 2)2.) _________________is a Greek word meaning the telling of a story in order to explain some phenomenon of nature, customs, the origin of the species…

a)proto e.) stellar

b) mesa f.) disc

c) myth g.) solar

d) Ra h.) Zeus

Let’s Review! (Section 2)3.) Myths are just a person’s attempt to explain something that they can’t make any sense of because they don’t ______.

a)have an education b)know any betterc)have all of the facts and/or technology d)they can’t read

Let’s Review! (Section 2)4.) What three things take the place of myths forEducated people?

a) gossip e) factsb) National Enquirer f) fairy talesc) science g) hear sayd) proof h) Oprah

Let’s Review! (Section 3)1.) What celestial body is the central and largest

member of our Solar System?

a) Sun e) Earthb) Mercury f) Venusc) Mars g) Mirrord) Zephyrus h) Flora e) Chloris i) Gaea f) Aphrodite j) Ishtar

Let’s Review! (Section 3)2.) What was the ancient Egyptian name for "sun" or "Ra" in the hieroglyphic writing system.

a)Sun e) Earthb) Mercury f) Venusc) Mars g) Mirrord) Zephyrus h) Ra e) Chloris i) Gaea f) Aphrodite j) Ishtar

Let’s Review! (Section 3)3.) What is the name of the Greek Sun god? brings

life-giving heat and light to Earth.

a) Sun e) Earthb) Mercury f) Venusc) Mars g) Mirrord) Zephyrus h) Ra e) Chloris i) Apollo f) Aphrodite j) Ishtar

Let’s Review! (Section 3)

a) Sugar d) Spiceb) Heat e) Childrenc) Everything Nice f) Light

4.) The Greeks said that Apollo brought what two things to the Earth?

Let’s Review! (Section 3)5.) In Greek mythology, Apollo was the son of Zeus and _________.

a) Leto e) Earth

b) Mercury f) Venus

c) Mars g) Mirror

d) Zephyrus h) Ra e) Chloris i) Apollo f) Aphrodite j) Ishtar

Let’s Review! (Section 3)6.) Leto gave birth to the twins _____ and _________.

a)Apollo e) Artemisb) Mercury f) Venusc) Mars g) Mirrord) Zephyrus h) Ra e) Chloris i) Apollo f) Aphrodite j) Ishtar

Let’s Review! (Section 3)7.) Artemis is the goddess of what four things?

a)Leto e) Earthb) Mercury f) Wildernessc) Mars g) Mirrord) Zephyrus h) Wild Animals e) Hunt i) Apollo f) Fertility j) Ishtar

Let’s Review! (Section 3)8.) Artemis was often depicted with this above

her forehead?

a) A crescent wrenchb) A white dovec) A full moond) A crescent moon

Let’s Review! (Section 3)

9.) She was sometimes identified with ____________ (goddess of the moon).

a)Leto e) Earthb) Mercury f) Wildernessc) Selene g) Mirrord) Zephyrus h) Wild Animals e) Hunt i) Apollo f) Fertility j) Ishtar

Let’s Review! (Section 3)10.) Apollo was the god of the Sun, logic, and reason. He was also a fine _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and _ _ _ _ _ _ .

a) Wine makerb) Peelerc) Musiciand) Cooke) Healer

Let’s Review! (Section 3)

11.) What is the first planet from the Sun?

a) Venusb) Earthc) Mercuryd) Marse) Jupiterf) Uranusg) Saturn

Let’s Review! (Section 3)

12.) Mercury was the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of the Roman gods.

a) Hairdresserb) Cookc) Messengerd) Driver

Let’s Review! (Section 3)

13.) Mercury probably got its name because?

a) It has wingsb) It moves so quicklyc) It has lots of precious metalsd) It is silver

Let’s Review! (Section 3)14.) How long does it take Mercury to make one orbit of the sun?

a) 365 daysb) 188 daysc) 65 daysd) 88 days

Let’s Review! (Section 3)15.) A day on Earth lasts twenty-four hours. How

long does a day on Mercury last?

a) 58 hoursb) 58 Earth Daysc) 72 Hoursd) 72 Earth Days

Let’s Review! (Section 3)16.) The second planet from the sun is _ _ _ _ _.

a) Venusb) Earthc) Mercuryd) Marse) Jupiterf) Uranusg) Saturn

Let’s Review! (Section 3)

17.) The planet Venus was named after the goddess of _ _ _ _ and _ _ _ _ _ _.

a) War and Peaceb) Nature and Lovec) Messenger of the Godsd) Love and Beauty

Let’s Review! (Section 3)18.) Venus is one of the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ objects in

the night sky.

a) Biggestb) Fastestc) Brightestd) Slowest

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

1.) This is the symbol for what object in our Solar System?

a)Sun d) Earthb)Mercury e) Marsc)Venus f) Jupiter

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

2.) This is the symbol for what object in our Solar System?

a)Sun d) Earthb)Mercury e) Marsc)Venus f) Jupiter

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

3.) This is the symbol for what object in our Solar System?

a)Sun d) Earthb)Mercury e) Marsc)Venus f) Jupiter

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

4.) This is the symbol for what object in our Solar System?

a)Sun d) Earthb)Mercury e) Marsc)Venus f) Jupiter

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

5.) This is the symbol for what object in our Solar System?

a)Sun d) Earthb)Mercury e) Marsc)Venus f) Jupiter

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

6.) This is the symbol for what object in our Solar System?

a)Sun d) Earthb)Mercury e) Marsc)Venus f) Jupiter

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

a) 1stb) 2ndc) 3rdd) 4the) 5thf) 6thg) 7th

7.) Jupiter is the ________ planet from the Sun.

Let’s Review! (Section 4)8.) Jupiter is named after the _____ of the Gods in

Roman mythology.

a) Queen c) Uncleb)Aunt d) King

Let’s Review! (Section 4)9.) The symbol for Jupiter is said to represent a hieroglyph of the ________or to be the initial letter of ______ with a line drawn through it to indicate

its abbreviation.

a) Seahawk d) Jupiterb)Neptune e) Eaglec) Crow f) Zeus

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

10.) Who was Jupiter’s father?

a) Tyran e) Neptuneb) Pluto f) Keenenc) Patrick g) Saturnd) Uranus h) Alex

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

11.) Jupiter did what to Saturn?

a) Married his wifeb) Overheard his conversationc) Killed his dog Plutod) Overthrew him to become king

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12.) Who were Jupiter’s brothers?

a) Romulus and Remusb) Bevus and Buttheadc) Mickey and Minnied) Neptune and Plutoe) Spartacus and Caesarf) Mars and Uranus

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

13.) Pluto was the god of .

a.) The Underworldb.) The Mountainsc.) The Sead.) The Skies and Earth

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

14.) Jupiter was the go of the _____.

a.) The Underworldb.) The Mountainsc.) The Sead.) The Skies and Earth

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

15.) Neptune was the god of _____.

a.) The Underworldb.) The Mountainsc.) The Sead.) The Skies and Earth

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

16.) How long does it take Jupiter to orbit the sun.

a) Two years c) Four Daysb) Five Years d) Twelve Years

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

17.) How many days are in an Earth year?

a) 52b) 12c) 24d) 10e) 365f) 4,380

Let’s Review! (Section 4)18.) How many Earth days are in a Jovianyear?

a) 52b) 12c) 24d) 10e) 365f) 4,380

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

19.) A day on Jupiter lasts how many Earth hours?

a) 52b) 12c) 24d) 10e) 365f) 4,380

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

20.) How many hours are in an Earth day?a) 52b) 12c) 24d) 10e) 39f) 365g) 4,380

Let’s Review! (Section 4)21.) Jupiter has how many known moons?

a) 52b) 12c) 24d) 10e) 39f) 365g) 4,380

Let’s Review! (Section 4)22.) Jupiter's main ring system is formed by ____ kicked up as interplanetary meteoroids smash into the giant planet's four small inner ______.

a) Planets c) Moonsb) Dirt d) Dust

Let’s Review! (Section 4)23.) Scientists watched in awe as a comet named _______________broke up and smashed into Jupiter making explosions the size of the Earth.

a.) Shoemaker-Levy 9 c.) Martin-Marietta 4b.) Sears and Roebuck 7 d.) Sherwin-Williams 3

Let’s Review! (Section 4)24.) Jupiter has a Giant ______ spot.

a) Bald c) Hotb) Dark d) Red

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

25.) How many Earths can you fit into the Giant Red Spot?

a) One c) Threeb) Two d) Four

Let’s Review! (Section 4)26.) The Giant Red Spot is just a_______

a) Big Lake of Lavab) Bunch of Spilled Red Paintc) A Thunder Stormd) A Hurricane

Let’s Review! (Section 4)27.) Jupiter is the ______ planet in the

Solar System.

a) Smelliest c) Dirtiestb) Smallest d) Largest

Let’s Review! (Section 4)28.) How many Earths can you fit into Jupiter?

a) 3 c) 1300b) 300 d) 33

Let’s Review! (Section 4)

29.) What causes the bands on Jupiter?

a) Rivers of polluted water from erosionb) Iron Oxide transference from nearby Marsc) The quick spinning of the planet whipping up the atmosphered) Volcanoes

Let’s Review! (Section 4)30.) Jupiter has a very strong magnetic field, you would weigh how much more if you lived on Jupiter?

a) One and a half timesb) Two and a half timesc) Three and a half timesd) Four and a half times

Let’s Review! (Section 5)

Question # 1: Saturn is the ________planet from the Sun.

a)4th

b)5th

c)6th

d)7th

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 2: Saturn is named after the Roman god of _______ and __________.

a) Senility d) Mobilityb) Fragility e) Fertilityc) Agriculture f) Aquaculture

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 3: Saturn carried an _____ ______

and a ________ as his symbols.

a) Cup of coffee d) Pickleb) Hour Glass e) Ticklec) Scythe f) Sickle

Let’s Review! (Section 5)

Question # 4: A sickle is a tool used to cut ______.

a) Hair d) Treesb) Wood e) Meatc) Cheese f) Grain

Let’s Review! (Section 5)

Question # 6: The sickle evolved into anotherdevice called a _______.

a) Lawn Mower d) Thresherb) Sycophant e) Scythec) Bulldozer f) Tiller

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 7: From the name Kronos we get the word _________.

a) Timex d) Cro-Magnonb) Croix de Guerre e) Rolexc) Chronograph f) Phonograph

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 8: Saturn carried a device to

measure time called an_________.

a) Stopwatch d) Big Benb) Minute Hand e) Hour Handc) Hour Glass f) Hour Window

Let’s Review! (Section 5)

Question #9: Saturn dethroned and his own father _____.

a) Mars d) Plutob) Jupiter e) Neptunec) Mercury f) Uranus

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 10: Saturn’s wife was named?

a) Miss Jennifer d) Kimberlyb) Veronica e) Rheac) Rachel f) Jade

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question #11: What strange thing would

Saturn do with his new born babies?

a) He would play with them.b) He would take them for a walk.c) He would swallow them.d) He would take them out for a pizza.

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 12: How did Rhea trick Saturn in to thinking that he had swallowed Jupiter?

a) She fed him a cheese stuffed pizza.b) She fed him a blanket with a rock in it.c) She gave him a super sized meal at McDonalds.d) She made him burp.

Let’s Review! (Section 5)

Question #13: How did Jupiter make Saturn give back his two brothers?

a.) He made him vomit.b.) He put him in jail.c.) He made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.d.) He gave him $20.00

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question #14: What were the names of Jupiter’s two older brothers?

a) Jimmy and Plutob) Neptune and Patrickc) Pluto and Alexd) Corey and Tyrane) Neptune and Plutof) Pluto and Mars

Let’s Review! (Section 5)

Question # 15: Saturn has four things named after him, what are they?

a) A Book d) A Planetb) A Day e) A Festivalc) A Dessert f) A Car Company

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 16: Saturn is unique from all of the other planets in our Solar System because of the _____ that are visible from Earth with a telescope.

a) Craters d) Lakesb) Oceans e) Ringsc) Highways f) Airports

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 17: Saturn is the _______ largest Planet in our Solar System.

a) Second d) Fourthb) Third e) Fifthc) Third f) Sixth

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 18: What is the largest planet in our

Solar System?

a) Mars e) Venusb) Earth f) Mercuryc) Saturn g) Jupiterd) Neptune h) Uranus

Let’s Review! (Section 5)

Question #19: If you could line them up, more than _________Earths would fit across Saturn.

a) Five d) Eightb) Six e) Ninec) Seven f) Ten

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 20: What two gases make u most of

Saturn?

a) Hydrogen and Methaneb) Argon and Nitrogenc) Carbon Dioxide and Heliumd) Helium and Hydrogen

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 21: True or False The rings of Saturn

are made of solid frozen gases.

a) True b) False

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question #22: The rings of Saturn are made up of

what three things?

a) Sugar and Spice and all things Niceb) Dust, Ice, and Dippin Dotsc) Dust, Space Junk, and Rockd) Dust, Ice, and Rock

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 23: How large are some of the particles

in the rings of Saturn?

a) One Mile d) One kilometerb) One and a Half Miles e) One Yardc) One and a Half Kilometers f) One Century

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 24: When its rings are facing Earth

“edge on” why do they "disappear" from our view?

a) They’re shyb) They’re light bluec) They’re crookedd) They’re tilted

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 25: Winds around the Saturn's equator can reach 1,118 miles per hour.

a) 111 mph d) 1,018 mphb) 7,118 mph e) 250 mphc) 218 mph f) 1,118 mph

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 26: Winds on the planet Earth can

reach as high as _____ mph.

a) 111 mph d) 1,018 mphb) 7,118 mph e) 250 mphc) 218 mph f) 1,118 mph

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 27: A Saturn year lasts for more

than _____ Earth years.

a) Ten hours and fourteen minutesb) Twenty-nine Earth yearsc) Three hundred and sixty-five daysd) Twenty-four hours

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question # 28: Because of this rapid spin and its

low-density interior, Saturn has a noticeably Flattened ____ and _____.

a) Top and Sideb) Bottom and Frontc) Front and Backd) Top and Bottom

Let’s Review! (Section 5)Question #29: Saturn is the only planet in our Solar

System that is less dense than water. If you put Saturn in a giant bath tub, it would _____.

a) Sinkb) Divec) Floatd) Swim

Let’s Review! (Section 6)1.) The symbol for Uranus is represented by combined devices indicating the ___ plus

the ______ of _____.

Let’s Review! (Section 6)

2.) Who was Uranus’ mother?

a.) Ms. Davidb.) Gaeac.) Mrs. Obamad.) Saturn

Let’s Review! (Section 6)

3.) Who was Uranus’ wife?

a.) Ms. Davidb.) Gaeac.) Mrs. Obamad.) Saturn

4.) Who were Uranus’ three children?

a.) Marsb.) The Cyclopsc.) The Hecatoncheiresd.)

The Cyclopes were the inventive blacksmiths of the Olympian gods.

They were skilled metal workers and

created Zeus' thunderbolts,

Neptune's trident,

and Hades' Helmet of Darkness…

and the Hundred-handed Ones (the Hecatoncheires)

Hades Helmet of Darkness was later used by Perseus while on his quest to decapitate

Medusa.

Who were Perseus and Medusa?

Well, it all started when Acrisius was told by a priestess that his daughter’s son Perseus would grow up one day

and kill him.

Acrisius couldn’t bring himself to kill his

daughter or her young son, so Acrisius had

them placed in a wooden chest and set

adrift in the sea.

They were washed up on

a island named

Seriphos among many

islands.

A kind fisherman named Dictys ("net") found the chest, opened it and found them still alive. He and his kind wife had no children and took them home and cared for both of them for many years, until

Perseus was grown.

King Polydectes, who was Dictys’ brother,

wanted to make Danae his wife, but Perseus

knew that he didn’t love her and told the king to

leave her alone.

One day when Perseus was on a trip to Samos, Polydectes told Danae that if he couldn’t have her

as his wife then he would make her his slave.

Since Danae loved only her son Perseus and her dead husband, she accepted her fate and became Polydectes’

slave.

When Perseus came back from his trip he heard what Polydectes had done and

ran to the palace to protect his mother.

Perseus found Polydectes and was about to kill him with a heavy flower vase when

his mother pleaded with him

not to.

Perseus and Dictys found Danae a job sweeping the

altar at a local temple where not even Polydectes would

bother her.

At a banquet, Polydectes tricked Perseus into making a promise he

couldn’t keep. Perseus promised that he would

bring Polydectes the head of the Gorgon.

Well, to make a long story short, Perseus went north to talk to three old sisters who

knew where the nymphs were.

The nymphs had access to the Helmet

of Darkness. If Perseus could wear the helmet it would make him invisible.

Now with the winged sandals of Mercury, the

mighty sword of the gods, a magical bag and the Helmet of Darkness

he went in search of Medusa.

Who was the Gorgon

Medusa?

She was a beautiful woman who was cursed by the gods for having an affair

with an immortal. For the rest of time her hair was turned to snakes and her

hands to eagle claws. Whenever anyone looked into her eyes, they were immediately turned into

stone.

Perseus finds Medusa

Cuts her head off while she is sleeping.

Still wearing the invisibility cap hid

Perseus so he could escape pursuit by

the two remaining, immortal Gorgon

sisters, Stheno and Euryale, who woke up when Perseus slew their sister.

After seven years he finally arrived back to the court of Polydectes. Where they made fun of him and asked Perseus to show them the head of Medusa.

When he did, they all turned to stone.

The color of Uranus as viewed from afar is do to the high levels of methane gas found in the atmosphere.

This cut-away view shows Uranus composed of an outer envelope of molecular hydrogen, helium and methane. Below this region Uranus appears to be composed of a mantle rich in water, methane, ammonia, and other elements. Uranus's core is

composed of rock and ice, and is likely no more than one Earth mass.

This is the highest resolution image of Uranus with its rings ever assembled.

This montage of the Uranian system was prepared from an assemblage of images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft

during its Uranus encounter in January 1986.

Neptune is the 8th planet from the Sun.

The symbol for Neptune is the trident (long three-pronged fork or weapon) of Neptune, god of the sea.

Neptune is so far away that it took the space probe Voyager 2, 12 years to reach it.

Neptune is the stormiest planet. The winds there can blow up to 1,240 miles per hour, that is three times

as fast as Earth's Hurricanes.

The planet has a system of thin dark rings but they are incomplete rings and are best described as arcs.

Neptune is a sea blue color due to the methane gas in its atmosphere.

It goes around the sun once every 165 Earth Years.

There are four newly found asteroids known as Neptunian ‘Trojan’ asteroids. The Trojans orbit in lockstep with the planet. They orbit

about 5 billion kilometers — ahead of Neptune.

Pluto is the ninth planet (dwarf) from the Sun.

The symbol for Pluto is a monogram made up of P and L in Pluto (and also the initials of Percival

Lowell, who predicted its discovery).

Percival Lowell didn’t find Pluto.

He found Mars!

On February 18, 1930, Clyde Tombaugh discovered what was then acclaimed as the ninth planet, which was officially named Pluto on

May 1, 1930.

He was given the honor of giving it a name. Although they were calling it Planet X informally, they needed

something that matched the rest of the planets in the Solar System.

Planet “X” ?It just didn’t sound right?

The name Pluto was suggested

by Venetia Burney, an 11-year old school girl in England.

She was interested in ancient mythology, and thought that Hades, the Greek god of the underworld, made a good

name.

Pluto was the Roman god of wealth and the counterpart of the Greek Plouton, for the riches found under the Earth's surface and from

which we get "plutocrats" and "plutocracy.”

Hades is simultaneously the Greek god of the dead and the name of the underworld abode in which he lived

A Pluto day (1 rotation) is 6 Earth days and a Pluto year (1 revolution around the sun) is 248 Earth

years. It was discovered in 1930.