Time to visit Uranus at Solar System Studies 101. We've read this information in class. Now it's time to read the material again and fill in the blanks.
Uranus is the seventh planet from the ______. It is the ________ of the outer __________. Like ___________ and __________, Uranus has a very _________ ______. One day on Uranus is only 17 hours long. A year on Uranus is ________ ______. One Uranus year is 84 Earth years! It takes Uranus 84 years to orbit the sun one time! That means Uranus goes all the way around the sun ________ ____ ______ ________________!
Uranus has _______ _________ than any other planet in our solar system. So far, 20 moons have been discovered! 18 of these are "for sures". The other 2 are still being studied to make sure they are moons. This picture shows Uranus and some of its moons. You can see that Uranus has rings like Saturn and Jupiter. They are not colorful or easy to see. Uranus's rings are ________ _______.
Uranus was first seen by a scientist named William Herschel in 1781, about 5 years after America declared its independence from Great Britain. Herschel wanted to name Uranus after King George III, who was the king of England at that time. Other scientists didn't like this, so they named it after another made-up Roman and Greek god like all the other planets.
Uranus is made of _________ _____. Methane is usually a gas on Earth, but it is so cold on Uranus that it is frozen into ice. Uranus's atmosphere is mostly made of __________ _____. There so many clouds made of methane in the atmosphere, that they cover the whole planet. Uranus looks bluish-green because its atmosphere is made of methane. Weather on Uranus is __________ _______ that move through the atmosphere. Winds on Uranus can blow up to about ______ ________ ___ _______!!
An odd fact about Uranus is that it "lays on its side". Its ________ _____ _________ ______ are in the _________ instead of on the top and on the bottom. Here is a picture that shows this. Uranus sort of looks like a ball that got squished in t
