Download Solar System Test Study Guide

Solar System Test Study Guide
1. How does the sun produce energy?
2. How is the Earth unique among the planets?
3. Which inner planet had water besides the
Earth?
4. How are Venus and Earth alike?
5. What do the outer planets have in common?
6. What are Saturn’s rings made up of?
7. How is Uranus different from the other
planets?
8. What are the shapes of the orbits of most
comets?
9. Where is the asteroid belt?
10. Where do meteoroids come from?
11. What are the four inner planets?
12. What are the four outer planets?
13. How do you define a planet’s year?
14. How do you define a planet’s day?
15. What planets do not have moons?
16. What are the planets in order starting from the
sun?
17. Which inner planet has a day that is over two
Earth months long?
18. Why is it helpful to study smaller objects in our
solar system?
19. What is the difference between an asteroid
and a meteoroid?
20. What model of the solar system has Earth at
the center?
21. What model of the solar system has the sun at
the center?
22. What did Copernicus do?
23. What was Galileo’s evidence for
heliocentricism?
24. What two factors keep the planets in orbit?
25. How do reflecting and refracting telescopes
work?
26. What can we find out about a star using a
spectrograph?
27. What is a light year?
28. How are elliptical and spiral galaxies different?
29. What type of galaxy is the Milky Way?
30. What two pieces of evidence support the Big
Bang Theory?
31. What is the Big Bang Theory?