Scavenger+Hunt+Answer+Key

= = =Solar System Scavenger Hunt Key = = = =Sub-tpoic: PLANETS =
 * **Question**: What shape is our solar system?
 * Source: http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/solar_system.html
 * **Answer**: Our solar system is elliptical in shape. It’s shaped like an egg.


 * **Question**: What are the four planets closest to the sun?
 * Source: http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system
 * **Answer**: The terrestrial planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars


 * **Question**: What are two characteristics of a dwarf planet?
 * Source http://solarsystem.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/index.cfm
 * **Answer**: Characteristics of a "dwarf planet" are a. it orbits around the Sun, (b) it has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, (c) it has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, and (d) it is not a satellite.


 * **Question**: What is a revolution and how long does it take the Earth to make one revolutions around the sun?
 * Source: http://www.globio.org/glossopedia/article.aspx?art_id=36
 * **Answer:** a revolution is a movement of something in a circle around a central point or object. I t takes Earth 366.6 days to make on e revolution around the sun.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #0019ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 109%;">Sub- topic: PLANETS' MOONS = = = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Sub-topic: ASTEROIDS. COMETS, AND METEORS** =
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Question**: What is the name of the beautiful moon that is littered with mountains, valleys, old volcano sites and bowl like holes (craters) that can be seen from earth without a telescope?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Answer:** Luna is our moon
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Question**: In May of 2002 Scott S. Sheppard and David C. Jewitt of the University of Hawaii announced the discovery of how many new moons around the planet?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Answer**: In May of 2002 Scott S. Sheppard and David C. Jewitt of the University of Hawaii announced the discovery of 11 new moons around the planet
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Question**: Why is Mar's moon Phobos a "doomed world"?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Answer:** Every hundred years it gets almost two meters closer to the surface of Mars. Eventually it will either crash into the planet, or be ripped apart.
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Question**: What is the order of Neptune's moons according to distance?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Answer:** The order of Neptune's moons is Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Proteus, Triton, and Nereid.
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Question**: 2 parts- What is the largest Moon of Saturn, which is also the second largest moon in our solar system? AND which two planets is this moon larger than?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Answer:** Titan [TY-tun] is the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest moon in the solar system. Although Titan is classified as a moon, it is larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto.
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Question**: In what year were several of Uranus' 27 moons discovered?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">**Answer:** And several of Uranus' 27 known moons were discovered as recently as 2003.
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Question: What are asteroids, comets, and meteors made of?
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Answer: Rock and ice are the main ingredients of asteroids, comets, and meteors


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Question: Where can you find comets in the Solar System?
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Answer: most comets are great travelers that spend most of their time on the outskirts of the Solar System


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Question: When was the first asteroid spotted? By whom?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[|http://library.thinkquest.org/5014/#]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Answer: The first sight of an asteroid was in 1801 by an astronomer named Piazzi


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Question: When do meteor showers occur?
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Answer: they occur when the Earth passes through the trail of [|debris] left by a [|comet] as it [|orbits] the Sun