Solar System Data Questions

1. On which planet is a day longer than a year?

Mercury
Venus
Saturn
Uranus

2. Which planet would float if it was able to be placed in water?

Venus
Mars
Saturn
Uranus

3. As the distance between a planet and the sun increases, the planet's period of revolution

Increases
Decreases
Remains the same

4. A zone containing many asteroids is located about 350 million km from the sun. Between which two planets is this zone located?

Mercury and Venus
Mars and Jupiter
Saturn and Uranus
Uranus and Neptune

5. What is the approximate distance between Jupiter and Saturn?

58 million km
123 million km
487 million km
649 million km

6. Which planet would have the greatest variation in orbital velocity during one complete orbit of the sun?

Mercury
Earth
Jupiter
Neptune

7. On which planet is a day most similar in duration to an Earth day?

Venus
Mars
Uranus
Neptune

8. Which planet's orbit is most circular?

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Neptune

9. Which celestial object completes one revolution in the same time as it completes one rotation?

Venus
Saturn
Neptune
Earth's Moon

10. What is the distance between Venus and Neptune?

4498 million km
4390 million km
1427 million km
108 million km

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