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Solar System Scavenger Hunt Answer Key! **Team Members:** **Elefteria Garos-Mercury Venus Earth** **Alyson Schnorr-Uranus Neptune Pluto** **Rachel Paulus-Zodiac Signs** **Shannon Greenwood-The Sun** **Amanda McCrae-Mars Jupiter Saturn**

Sub-Topic: The Planets Mercury Venus & Earth 1. ** [|Mercury] is the closest planet to the sun**.

__**True:**__ Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun in our Solar System

Sub-Topic: The Planets Mercury Venus & Earth 2. **Planet Venus is named after the [|goddess] of**

__**B:**__ It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.

Sub-Topic: The Planets Mercury Venus & Earth 3. **70% of [|Earth] is covered by**

**__C__.** Oceans at least 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) deep cover nearly 70 percent of Earth's surface.

Sub-Topic: The Planets Mercury Venus & Earth 4. **What layer of Earth's atmosphere causes the [|weather] ?**

__**B.**__ The lowest layer of the atmosphere is known as the troposphere the, which is constantly in motion, causing the weather.

Sub-Topic: The Planets Uranus Neptune & Pluto 5. ** [|Uranus] is the seventh planet from the sun?**

**True -** Uranus is the seventh planet in our solar system.

Sub-Topic: The Planets Uranus Neptune & Pluto

** 6. Which planet has the [|strongest winds]? **

** A - Neptune. **The strongest winds on any planet were measured on Neptune.

Sub-Topic: The Planets Uranus Neptune & Pluto **7. What is [|Uranus] entirely composed of?**

**D - All of the above.** Uranus is made up of a swirl of gases, liquids, and solids; it has no solid surface to stand on.

Sub-Topic: The Planets Uranus Neptune & Pluto **8. How many moons does [|Pluto] have?**

** C - Three moons. **Pluto has 3 moons. The largest is named Charon.

Sub-Topic: The Planets Uranus Neptune & Pluto **9. Instead of being a [|dwarf planet], Pluto is now known by its scientific number. What is it?**

** C - 134340. **In all scientific references, Pluto will now be known by the asteroid number 134340.

Sub-Topic: The Zodiac Signs **10. If you wanted to read your horoscope prior to 2011, you could identify with one of ___ signs. Now their are__ _ known Zodiac signs.**

C- 12;13

Sub-Topic: The Zodiac Signs ** 11. Zodiac signs where created by this type of astrologer: **

C- Babylonian

Sub-Topic: The Zodiac Signs **12.The stars that create all these Zodiac signs are made up of what?**

D- All the above

Sub-Topic: The Zodiac Signs **13. Some of our Zodiac signs are represented by inanimate objects or people, but how many of them are represented by animals?**

D- 7

Sub-Topic: The Sun
 * 14. Energy from the sun’s extreme mass is constantly released as light and heat which spreads throughout the solar system and warms the Earth. This process is known as ___. **

Answer: Convection. “The difference in mass is expelled as energy and is carried to the surface of the Sun, through a process known as convection, where it is released as light and heat.”

Sub-Topic: The Sun
 * 15. What happens during a solar flare? **

Answer: “During periods of high solar activity, the Sun commonly releases massive amounts of gas and plasma into its atmosphere. These ejections are known as solar flares.”

Sub-Topic: The Sun
 * 16. Which of the following are the stages of a star that the sun will eventually experience in chronological order? **

Answer: A .“As the outer layers expand, the radius of the sun will increase and it will become a red giant, an elderly star…Finally, the core will cool into a white dwarf. Eventually, it will further cool into a nearly invisible black dwarf. This entire process will take a few billion years.”

Answer: A. 2
Sub-Topic: Mars, Jupiter & Saturn True/False 18. Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System.


 * Answer: True **