Venus Trivia Questions
Venus is the “what” planet from the Sun?
A: Fifth.
How long does it take for Venus to orbit the
Sun?
A: 224.7 Earth days.
It has the longest what of any planet in the
Solar System?
A: Rotation period (243 days).
Venus rotates in the opposite direction to what?
A: Most of the other planets.
Venus has no natural what?
A: Satellite.
What is Venus named after?
A: The Roman goddess of love and beauty.
As far as brightness goes, where does Venus rank
in the night sky??
A: It is the second-brightest natural object in
the night sky after the Moon.
Because Venus orbits within Earth's orbit it is
called a what?
A: An inferior planet.
What kind of planet is Venus?
A: It’s a terrestrial planet.
Sometimes Venus is called Earth’s what?
A: Earth's "sister planet".
Why is Venus called Earth’s sister planet?
A: Because of their similar size, mass,
proximity to the Sun, and bulk composition.
It has the densest atmosphere of the what?
A: Four terrestrial planets.
Venus has an atmosphere consisting of more than
96% what?
A: Carbon dioxide.
The atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface
is how many times that of Earth?
A: 92 times.
The atmospheric pressure is about the same as
the pressure found how far under water on Earth?
A: 3,000 ft. underwater.
Venus is by far the hottest planet in the what?
A: Solar System.
What is the mean surface temperature on Venus?
A: 863 °F.
Venus is shrouded by an opaque layer of what?
A: Highly reflective clouds.
What are the clouds made of?
A: Sulfuric acid.
As the temperature rose, what happened to the
oceans?
A: They vaporized.
What caused the rise in temperature?
A: A runaway greenhouse effect.
Venus's surface is periodically resurfaced by
what?
A: Volcanism.
Venus was the first planet to have its motions
what?
A: Plotted across the sky, as early as the
second millennium BC.
Venus was the first planet beyond Earth visited
by what?
A: A spacecraft (Mariner 2) in 1962.