SATURN QUIZ

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1: What is Saturn? 8: How many moons does 15: Which four planets are farthest
a) A planet Saturn have? from the Sun?
b) A comet a) 3 a) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
c) A moon b) At least 53 b) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
c) 23 c) Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus
2: Which statement is true?
a) Saturn is the farthest planet from 9: Who or what is Saturn 16: Which statement is false?
the Sun. named after? a) Saturn’s rings may have formed
b) Saturn is the sixth planet from a) A popular car from pieces of moons and comets.
the Sun. b) A person from the Bible b) Saturn is shaped like a banana.
c) Saturn is the closest planet to c) The Roman god of farming c) Titan is the second-largest moon in
the Sun. the solar system.
10: How fast is Saturn moving
3: What is Saturn made of? through space? 17: Which statement is true?
a) Liquids and gases a) 100,000 miles per hour a) Saturn is larger than Jupiter.
b) Rock (160,000 km/h) b) Saturn is about the same size
c) Ice b) 21,500 miles per hour as Earth.
(35,000 km/h) c) Saturn is larger than Earth but
4: How long is a year on Saturn? c) 250 miles per hour (402 km/h) smaller than Jupiter.
a) About 40 Earth days
b) Nearly 11,000 Earth days 11: How many astronauts have 18: Which statement is false?
c) 365 Earth days flown to Saturn? a) Saturn’s journey around the Sun is
a) 15 shorter than Earth’s.
5: What are Saturn’s rings b) 0 b) Saturn’s journey around the Sun is
made of? c) 1 longer than Earth’s.
a) Solid rock c) Saturn’s journey around the Sun is
12: What did the Cassini space
b) Millions of diamonds, rubies, and longer than Jupiter’s.
probe do when it reached Saturn?
other precious stones
a) It landed on Saturn.
c) Billions of pieces of ice and dust 19: What will Cassini do when its
b) It flew past Saturn and traveled
mission to Saturn comes to
to Neptune.
6: Which of these statements an end?
c) It released a smaller probe to
is false? a) Cassini will crash itself into Saturn.
study Saturn’s moon Titan.
a) Saturn’s atmosphere is made of a b) Cassini will fly back to Earth.
thick layer of gases. 13: What is “Splat”? c) Cassini will land on Titan.
b) Saturn doesn’t have a) A place on Saturn where space
an atmosphere. probes have crashed 20: Which statement is true?
c) Saturn’s atmosphere has b) The name of a crater on one of a) Saturn has the tallest mountain in
1,000-mile per hour Saturn’s moons, Rhea the solar system.
(1,600 km/h) winds. c) The name of a dog sent in a b) The Cassini probe is still
spacecraft to Saturn orbiting Saturn.
7: How long does it take Saturn to c) Saturn is a very hot planet.
rotate, or spin around, once? 14: Which statement is true?
a) About 10.5 Earth hours a) A telescope is needed to see
b) 3 Earth hours Saturn in the sky.
c) 5,000 Earth hours b) Ancient people were able to see
Saturn in the sky.
c) Saturn was discovered in 1948.

20: b 18: a 16: b 14: b 12: c 10: b 8: b 6: b 4: b 2: b

19: a 17: c 15: b 13: b 11: b 9: c 7: a 5: c 3: a 1: a
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