Question 85
EasyOriginal questionNeptune is the eighth and planet from the Sun, more than thirty times as far away as the Earth. It is dark, cold and extremely windy.
Like its neighbour Uranus, Neptune is called an ice giant. Under its thick, windy atmosphere of hydrogen, helium and methane lies a deep of water, ammonia and methane flowing over a solid about the size of the Earth. The methane in its air is what gives Neptune its deep blue colour.
The planet has six faint rings, which are very hard to see, and sixteen known moons.
Neptune's day is short, about sixteen hours. But its journey around the Sun is so long that one Neptune year lasts 165 Earth years. In other words, since it was discovered in 1846, Neptune has gone round the Sun only once.
Neptune has "a deep soup of water, ammonia and methane". Here "soup" means
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The water, ammonia and methane flow over a solid core, like a thick liquid.
"Soup" is used as a picture of a thick mixture, not as food.
Worth noting
The word is used as a comparison, so the everyday meaning of food does not fit.
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