Venus Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
Which planet is Venus from the Sun?
A: The second.
How long does it take for Venus to orbit the sun?
A: 224.7 Earth days.
Venus has no natural what?
A: Satellites.
Venus is named after the Roman goddess of what?
A: Love and
beauty.
After the Moon, Venus is the brightest “what” in the night
sky?
A: Natural object.
Venus is a terrestrial planet and is sometimes called
Earth's what?
A: Sister planet.
Venus is both the closest planet to Earth and the planet
closest in what to Earth?
A: Size.
Of the four terrestrial planets, Venus has the densest
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's?
A: 92.
What is the mean surface temperature of Venus?
A: 735 K (462 °C; 863 °F).
It has no “what” to lock carbon back into rocks and surface
features?
A: Carbon cycle.
Venus does not seem to have any organic life to absorb
carbon in what?
A: Biomass.
Venus is shrouded by an opaque layer of highly reflective
clouds of what?
A: Sulfuric acid.
The surface of Venus was finally mapped in detail by what?
A: Project Magellan in 1990–91.
The ground shows evidence of extensive what?
A: Volcanism.
About 80% of the Venusian surface is covered by what?
A: Smooth, volcanic plains.
Most Venusian surface features are named after historical
and mythological what?
A: Women.
Much of the Venusian surface appears to have been shaped by
what kind of activity?
A: Volcanic activity.
Venus has several times as many
volcanoes as what planet?
A: Earth.
How old is the Venusian surface estimated to be?
A: 300–600 million years old.
The CO2-rich atmosphere, along with thick clouds of sulfur
dioxide, generates the strongest greenhouse effect in the what?
A: Solar System.
Above the dense CO2 layer are thick clouds consisting
mainly of sulfur dioxide and what?
A: Sulfuric acid droplets.
The clouds reflect and scatter about how much of the
sunlight that falls on them back into space?
A: 90%.