Name : Elsa Barrientos Batas Date : October 21, 2021

Course and level : BSED major in science Score :

Instructor : Sir Erwin Berry

Activity 8: The Gas Giant Planet

Directions: Read the question carefully and answer what is being asked.
1. How many planets are there in our solar system?

Answer : There are eight planets in our Solar System.

2. Are the orbits of the planets on the same planet? Justify

Answer : In reality, the planets do not all orbit perfectly in the same plane. Instead, they swing about on
different orbits in three dimensional space. For this reason, they will never be perfectly aligned. They
just mean that some of the planets are in the same general region of the sky.

3. In our solar system, the planets known as the giant planets are also known as the outer planets?
True or False? Justify

Answer : True Astronomers have divided the eight planets of our solar system into the inner planets and
the outer planets. The 4 inner planets are the closest to the Sun, and the outer planets are the other
four Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The outer planets are also called the Jovian planets or gas
giants.
4. Describe the atmosphere of the gas giant planets.
Answer : The gas giants have atmospheres that are mostly hydrogen and helium. All four planets rotate
relatively rapidly while Earth spins once on its axis every 24 hours, Saturn spins once every 10 hours. Like
Earth, all the gas giants have wind bands.

5. To weigh roughly two-thirds less than what you do on Earth, which planet would you be on? Why?

Answer : I would be on the planet mars. The gravity on Mar's surface is approximately 38 percent less
than the gravity on Earth's surface.

6. How long does it take for light from the Sun to reach Earth?
Answer : The Sun is 93 million miles away, so sunlight takes 8 and 1/3 minutes to get to us. Not much
changes about the Sun in so short a time, but it still means that when you look at the Sun, you see it as it
was 8 minutes ago. Photo of the Sun in hydrogen-alpha light
7. It takes the Sun 225-250 million years to do one revolution of the Milky Way Galaxy. How fast does
the Sun travel?
Answer : A 220km in a second.
8. How old is the solar system?
Answer : Our solar system formed about 4.5 billion years ago from a dense cloud of interstellar gas and
dust.

9. In 2007, Voyager 2 crossed the heliosheath boundary and into the vast region at the edge of our
solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas between the stars. What did this
crossing confirm about the shape of our solar system?

Answer : It's squashed.

10. True of False. The immediate galactic area around our solar system is a cloud known as the Local
Fluff which is within an otherwise sparse region called the Local Bubble.Explain
Answer : A True. Bizarre though it sounds, the Sun is inside a located inside a cloud, known as the Local
Fluff, which is located in the middle of a hot bubble called the Local Bubble.