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Please use your notes to answer the following questions. Using the chart above, determine which planet hasa day longer than it's year? Mercury Venus Earth Mars The shape of the orbit of the planets should actually be very neat circles. The planets are the wrong colors. Earth actually takes 5 years to orbit the sun. The shape of the orbit of the planets lookscircular but should actually be an ellipse. Besides the fact that planets are missing from this diagram, what else is wrong with this picture? The Kuiper Belt exists between the planets Mars and Jupiter and contains many dwarf planets such as Pluto. True of False True False This planet is a gas giant. It has very dark rings. It spins on it's side and has an atmosphere composed of hydrogen, helium, and methane. The planet being described is: Mercury Mars Saturn Uranus This planet is one of the rocky inner planets (also called terrestrial). Unlike the other rockyplanets, it has a very thick atmosphere mostlymade of carbon dioxide. Because of it's thickatmosphere, it has the hottest average temperatureof all the other planets. It also has no moons.This planet is: Venus Earth Jupiter Neptune |