Question 1

What kind of activity does the surface of Triton experience?

Accepted Answer

A)   nitrogen geysers
B)   sulfur-based volcanoes
C)   carbon dioxide geysers
D)   methane ice tectonics
E)   liquid nitrogen lava flows A

Question 2

Which statement best describes the smaller moons of Uranus?

Accepted Answer

A)   bright, spherical bodies
B)   bright, highly grooved surfaces
C)   dark, icy worlds
D)   dark, rocky worlds
E)   dark, highly active worlds C

Question 3

Match between columns
                        Premises: It is a dwarf planet found in the asteroid belt.
Its moon has a density similar to its own.
Its orbit is highly elliptical around the Sun.
Its discovery led the IAU to generate a classification of dwarf planets.

Accepted Answer

The Answer of Ceres and Pluto and Neptune and Charon is...

Question 4

Which Uranian satellite appears to have been the most geologically active?

Accepted Answer

A)   Titania
B)   Ariel
C)   Miranda
D)   Umbriel
E)   Oberon

Question 5

How are dwarf planets different from planets?

Accepted Answer

The answer of How are dwarf planets different from planets?...

Question 6

Which spacecraft was the first to photograph Uranus in 1986?

Accepted Answer

A)   Hubble Space Telescope
B)   Cassini-Huygens
C)   Cassini-HUygens
D)   Voyager 2
E)   New Horizons

Question 7

The winds of Neptune have a tendency to blow backward, against the rotation of the planet.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Which of these celestial bodies is rocky with a thin atmosphere?

Accepted Answer

A)   Ceres
B)   Eris
C)   Neptune
D)   Uranus
E)   Pluto

Question 9

The cycle of nitrogen at Triton's north pole resembles in some ways the cycle of carbon dioxide on _______________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The cycle of nitrogen at Triton's north...

Question 10

Belt-zone circulation on Uranus is dominated by the rotation of the planet and not by the direction of sunlight.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Uranus is less dense than Saturn.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Many of the Kuiper belt objects, including Pluto, are caught in a 3:2 resonance with Neptune.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

What are the clouds of Uranus composed of?

Accepted Answer

A)   hydrogen
B)   helium
C)   carbon dioxide
D)   methane
E)   sulfur

Question 14

Titan is Neptune's largest satellite.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

The interior of Uranus is hot such as the interiors of Jupiter and Saturn.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

The moons of Uranus orbit within the planet's ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   belt-zone circulation
B)   occultation
C)   elliptic
D)   ecliptic
E)   radiation belts

Question 17

Any celestial body caught in a 3:2 resonance with Neptune is classified as a(n) ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   neptunite
B)   plutino
C)   Plutonian satellite
D)   asteroid
E)   Kuiper belt objects

Question 18

Pluto and Neptune orbit in _______________ with each other so they never come close together.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Pluto and Neptune orbit in _______________ with...

Question 19

Uranus appears blue to us because blue photons are absorbed into the atmosphere.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

What is the latest hypothesis for the creation of the ovoids on the surface of Miranda?

Accepted Answer

A)   A secondary bombardment episode occurred near the Kuiper belt
B)   Nitrogen ices warmed by the Sun melt and refreeze
C)   Gravitation pulled together fragments of an earlier shattered moon
D)   Tectonic plate movement at various subduction zones in its oceans
E)   internal heat driving large and slow convection currents in the icy mantle

Exam 24: Uranus Neptune Pluto and the Kuiper Belt

What kind of activity does the surface of Triton experience?

Which statement best describes the smaller moons of Uranus?

Match the characteristic to the planetary object. Answers may be used more than once.

Which Uranian satellite appears to have been the most geologically active?

How are dwarf planets different from planets?

Which spacecraft was the first to photograph Uranus in 1986?

The winds of Neptune have a tendency to blow backward, against the rotation of the planet.

Which of these celestial bodies is rocky with a thin atmosphere?

The cycle of nitrogen at Triton's north pole resembles in some ways the cycle of carbon dioxide on _______________.

Belt-zone circulation on Uranus is dominated by the rotation of the planet and not by the direction of sunlight.

Uranus is less dense than Saturn.

Many of the Kuiper belt objects, including Pluto, are caught in a 3:2 resonance with Neptune.

What are the clouds of Uranus composed of?

Titan is Neptune's largest satellite.

The interior of Uranus is hot such as the interiors of Jupiter and Saturn.

The moons of Uranus orbit within the planet's ____.

Any celestial body caught in a 3:2 resonance with Neptune is classified as a(n) ____.

Pluto and Neptune orbit in _______________ with each other so they never come close together.

Uranus appears blue to us because blue photons are absorbed into the atmosphere.

What is the latest hypothesis for the creation of the ovoids on the surface of Miranda?