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The document is a key concept builder about the outer planets. It asks students to match characteristics about the outer planets Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, and Uranus by writing the correct planet name on each line. The questions cover topics like planetary atmospheres, rings, axes of rotation, interiors, and orbital periods.

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Outer Planet Fill in

The document is a key concept builder about the outer planets. It asks students to match characteristics about the outer planets Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, and Uranus by writing the correct planet name on each line. The questions cover topics like planetary atmospheres, rings, axes of rotation, interiors, and orbital periods.

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Key Concept Builder

The Outer Planets


Key Concept What are the outer planets made of?
Directions: Answer each question by writing the correct outer planet or planets on the lines provided.

Jupiter

Neptune

Saturn

Uranus

1. Which planets have a small amount of methane in their atmospheres?

2. Which planets have atmospheres composed of hydrogen and helium gases?

3. Which planet has an atmosphere of 90 percent hydrogen?


4. Which planets have rings?

5. Which planet has a tilted axis of rotation?


6. Which planets interior is most like the one on Uranus?
7. Which planet has the largest and most complex ring system?

8. Which planets have interiors made of partially frozen water and ammonia?

9. Which planets surface is a thick, slushy layer of water, ammonia, and other materials?

10. Which planet takes 165 years to orbit the Sun?


11. Which planet has a core that might be the size of Earth and ten times its mass?

12. Which planet has rings, each containing thousands of narrower ringlets?

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13. Which outer planets have periods of rotation that are shorter than Earths?

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