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. .69 6.5 1.7 .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. 29 1 12 24

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) Cassini Huygens Kepler Galileo

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

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, Triton and Ariel Titan, Rhea, Dione and Iapetus Titan, Enceladus, Oberon and Charon Titan, Rhea, Miranda and Nereid

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