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- 1 What is the main characteristic that all inner planets share but outer planets do not?
- 2 What are two things that all outer planets have in common?
- 3 Which characteristic is not common to outer planets?
- 4 What are common characteristics of all planets?
- 5 Which of the following is characteristic of all planets?
- 6 Which common characteristic of planets do Saturn and Earth share?
Satellites and Rings None of the inner planets have rings, while all of the outer planets have quite a few (rings are made up of small particles, possibly ice, that circle the outer planets). Inner planets have a paucity of moons, with Mars claiming two and Earth just one. Mercury and Venus have none.
What are two things that all outer planets have in common?
Besides all of them being planets, all follow an elliptical orbit, all are spherical, and all are made of iron and nickel to some degree.
Are all outer planets the same?
Except for Pluto, the outer planets are alike in a lot of ways. They are much bigger than the inner planets. They are made mostly of hydrogen and helium. Recently, rings have been discovered around two more giant planets — Jupiter and Uranus.
Which characteristic is not common to outer planets?
What is NOT a common characteristic of the outer planets? The planets are all equally distanced from each other.
What are common characteristics of all planets?
It says a planet must do three things:
- It must orbit a star (in our cosmic neighborhood, the Sun).
- It must be big enough to have enough gravity to force it into a spherical shape.
- It must be big enough that its gravity cleared away any other objects of a similar size near its orbit around the Sun.
Which is common characteristic of all planets in the solar system?
They are made mostly of gas. They have a rocky surface. They revolve around each other.
Which of the following is characteristic of all planets?
It says a planet must do three things: It must orbit a star (in our cosmic neighborhood, the Sun). It must be big enough to have enough gravity to force it into a spherical shape. It must be big enough that its gravity cleared away any other objects of a similar size near its orbit around the Sun.
Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System, while Saturn is the least dense. The density of Earth is 5.52 g/cm3, while the density of Saturn is 0.687 g/cm3. In other words, Earth is 8 times as dense as Saturn. Another region where Saturn and Earth are similar is gravity.