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When a planets orbit around the Sun
looks like an oval, it’s called a(n)
Which of the following planets
are all made up of gas?
- ellipse
- circle
- axis
- rotation
- Venus, Mars, Saturn and Pluto
- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
- Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus
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Beyond what number is the Kuiper belt found?
What is the closest planet to the Sun?
- Mercury
- Earth
- Mars
- Venus
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What is the largest Planet in the Solar System?
What makes Uranus look blue-green?
- Venus
- Pluto
- Saturn
- Jupiter
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-The rocks it is made out of
-The clouds that surround it
-The Sun because it is so far away
-The methane mixed with helium and hydrogen
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Which planet is hottest?
Which of the following describes
Planet
the terrestrial planets?
-hot, dry, and dense
-small, dense, and rocky
-large, light, and gaseous
-small, light, and solid
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Distance From Sun
Earth
149.5 million Km
Jupiter
777.3 million Km
Mars
227.9 million Km
Mercury
57.9 million Km
Venus
108.2 million Km
Earth
149.5 million Km
Which planet is known as ‘The Red Planet’?
What is one way that gas giants differ
from the terrestrial planets?
Jupiter
Saturn
Pluto
Mars
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A comet travels more quickly in its orbit
when it is closer to the Sun.
Which statement is NOT correct?
-The Earth orbits the Sun
-The Moon orbits the Earth
-The Sun orbits the Milky Way
-The Moon provides the energy
for our Solar System
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Why?
Number of measured asteroids each year
Why does a SOLAR eclipse occur?
-The Sun goes behind another planet
-The Moon comes between the
Sun and the Earth
-The Earth faces away from the Sun
-The Sun goes out for a while
What inference can you make from this data?
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What is the arrow pointing to in this diagram?
What is the
INDEPENDENT
VARIABLE in the
investigation that
created this data?
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(From http://www.solarviews.com)
The name of the space mission that carried
NASA astronauts
to the Moon in 1969 was?
What is the
DEPENDENT
VARIABLE in the
investigation that
created this data?
Apollo 13
Challenger
Apollo 11
Apollo 2
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What happens to the tail of a comet as
it gets closer to the sun?
A and C point to what parts of a comet?
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The majority of Asteroids are found in a belt
located between what two planets?
Which of the following statements best
explains why the comet travels more
quickly when it is closer to the Sun?
-Earth and Mars
-Mars and Venus
-Mars and Jupiter
-Jupiter and Saturn
-The mass of the comet increases
-The temperature of the comet increases
-The frictional force on the comet increases
-The gravitational pull on the comet increases
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A day on Jupiter takes about 9 hours, 56 minutes.
Which fact would best explain this short day?
Which of the following correctly lists
the objects in space from smallest
to largest?
-Jupiter is less dense than Earth
- Jupiter is much farther from the Sun
than Earth
- Jupiter rotates more rapidly than Earth
- Jupiter’s orbit has greater eccentricity than
Earth’s
-star, galaxy, solar system, universe
-star, solar system, galaxy, universe
-star, solar system, universe, galaxy
-star, universe, solar system, galaxy
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What keeps the Earth in its orbit?
The cloud of gas and dust that
formed our solar system is the
_____?_____
-The Sun’s speed rotating
-The Sun’s gravitational pull
-The Earth’s spin direction
-The Earth’s location between other planets
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According to the data below, which of these
planets takes the longest time to
revolve around the Sun?
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According to the data below, which of these
planets probably has the highest temperature?
Planet Data
Planet Data
Mass (kg)
Saturn
Jupiter
Uranus
Neptune
568x1024
1899 x1024
86.8 x1024
102 x1024
Mass (kg)
Distance from
Sun (km)
1433.5 x106
788.6 x106
2872.5 x106
4495.1 x106
Saturn
Jupiter
Uranus
Neptune
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568x1024
1899 x1024
86.8 x1024
102 x1024
Distance from
Sun (km)
1433.5 x106
788.6 x106
2872.5 x106
4495.1 x106
A year on Jupiter is 4,333 days long.
A year on Mercury is 88 days long.
Why do planets have different length years?
Natural or artificial bodies that orbit
larger celestial bodies such as
planets are called
_____?_____
-A year is longer on larger planets.
-Each planet has its own orbital period.
-Some planets are larger than other planets.
-Planets exert a gravitational force
on other planets.
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Which planets have rings?
Small bodies of ice and cosmic dust
are called
_____?_____
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Which of the following keeps the
planets in our solar system in orbit
around the Sun?
The glowing trails that result when
Meteoroids burn up in
Earth’s atmosphere
are called
_____?_____
-Atmospheric pressure
-Gravitational force
-Electromagnetic energy
-Thermal energy
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Which of the following is a body that
Many scientists think that
reaches Earth’s surface?
comets originate in
-A meteorite
_____?_____
-A meteoroid
-An asteroid
-A comet
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On which planet is Olympus Mons,
the highest volcano in the Solar System,
located?
Which planet has the most moons?
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What is the comet belt outside
of Pluto's orbit called?
What are the terrestrial planets?
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