How much do you know about Uranus? Test your knowledge by taking the Uranus quiz. All you need to do is click on an answer for each question. Have fun!

1: What is Uranus?
a) An asteroid
b) A moon
c) A planet

3: Which statement is true?
a) Uranus is the third planet from the Sun.
b) Uranus is the farthest planet from the Sun.
c) Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.

5: What is Uranus made of?
a) Rock and ice
b) Metal and rock
c) Icy liquids and gases

7: Which statement is false?
a) Uranus doesn’t have an atmosphere.
b) Uranus’s atmosphere has 560-mile per hour (900 km/h) winds.
c) Uranus has an atmosphere made of gases.

9: Who or what is Uranus named after?
a) The Greek god of the sky
b) The dog of a scientist who discovered the planet
c) The Roman god of farming

11: Which statement is true?
a) Uranus’s journey around the Sun is the same length as Earth’s
b) Uranus’s journey around the Sun is shorter than Earth’s.
c) Uranus’s journey around the Sun is longer than Earth’s.

13: Which statement is false?
a) Uranus rotates, or spins, on its side.
b) Uranus rotates in the opposite direction than most other planets.
c) Uranus rotates upside down.

15: What is Uranus’s largest moon called?
a) Titania
b) Titan
c) Miranda

17: How many astronauts have flown to Uranus?
a) 14
b) 3
c) 0

19: What did the space probe Voyager 2 do when it
visited Uranus?
a) It released a robot that landed on the planet.
b) It beamed hundreds of photos of the planet back to Earth.
c) It landed on Uranus’s moon Titania.

2: What color is Uranus?
a) Green
b) Blue
c) Reddish-brown

4: How big is Uranus compared to Earth?
a) Uranus is nearly four times wider than Earth
b) Uranus is smaller than Earth
c) Uranus and Earth are the same size

6: Which statement is true?
a) Uranus is a very hot planet.
b) Uranus is a very cold planet.
c) Uranus is a very dusty planet.

8: Which statement is true?
a) You need a telescope to see Uranus from Earth.
b) It’s possible to see Uranus in the sky without a telescope.
c) Uranus was discovered in 1948.

10: How long is a year on Uranus?
a) About 84 Earth years
b) About 30 Earth years
c) About 200 Earth days

12: How long does it take Uranus to rotate, or spin
around, once?
a) About 5 minutes
b) About 17 Earth hours
c) About 43 Earth days

14: How many moons does Uranus have?
a) 0
b) 10
c) At least 27

16: What is Ariel?
a) The name of one of the rings of Uranus
b) One of the moons of Uranus
c) The name of a giant dust storm on the surface of Uranus

18: What surprising discovery did scientists make in 1977?
a) Rings circling Uranus
b) Huge rocks on Uranus that spelled out messages to Earth
c) A mountain on Uranus twice as tall as Mount Everest on Earth

20: Which of these statements is false?
a) Space probes have found signs of life on Uranus.
b) Many of Uranus’s moons are only about 10 miles (16 km) wide.
c) Uranus’s moon Miranda has canyons 12 times as deep as the
Grand Canyon.

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