Twenty Questions About Saturn

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Saturn was the first planet known to have ____________. Satellites Craters Sunspots Rings

2. Saturn's density is __________ that of water. 1.7 .69 6.5 .89

3. Saturn's mass is ______________ times that of the Earth. 12 95 8 65

4. What was the first spacecraft to visit Saturn? Pioneer 11 Voyager 1 Pioneer 10 Voyager 2

5. Saturn takes about ______________ Earth years to make one revolution around the Sun. 12 24 1 29

6. Saturn is named (in Roman mythology) for the god of _____________. Agriculture War The Sea None of the above

7. Saturn's atmosphere is mostly ______________. Nitrogen and Oxygen Sulfur and Hydrogen Hydrogen and Nitrogen Hydrogen and Helium

8. Saturn's rings are made up of individual small particles of rock and ice. True False

9. How thick are Saturn's rings? 87 kilometers 10 kilometers 1 kilometer 32 kilometers

10. The diameter of Saturn is _____________ kilometers. 187,000 77,000 120,000 245,000

11. The "dark" region between Saturn's two brightest rings is called ___________. Cassini's Division Maxwell Division Encke Division Guerin Division

12. The largest satellite of Saturn is ____________. Titan Dione Iapetus Rhea

13. There is a large impact crater on Saturn's moon Mimas, who is it named after? Kepler Huygens Newton Herschel

14. Titan's atmosphere consists mainly of ____________. hydrogen oxygen helium nitrogen

15. Titan's northern hemisphere is slightly lighter than the southern hemisphere. True False

16. What is the name of the probe that will be sent into Titan's atmosphere? (This question was written in 2002) Huygens Kepler Cassini Galileo

17. What satellite of Saturn has very contrasting coloration? Iapetus Enceledus Mimas Dione

18. What satellite of Saturn reflects almost all of the sunlight it receives? Titan Enceladus Mimas Hyperion

19. Which of the following are satellites of Saturn? Titan, Rhea, Miranda and Nereid Titan, Rhea, Triton and Ariel Titan, Rhea, Dione and Iapetus Titan, Enceladus, Oberon and Charon

20. Saturn is the _____________ largest planet in the Solar System. Saturn is not a planet Third Second Fourth