This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Physics > Solar System – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Solar System Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these has the strongest gravitational field? A) Jupiter. B) Sun. C) Earth. D) Saturn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sun. 2. Season changes and days being longer in the summer are due to ..... A) The earths tilt. B) The earths rotation. C) The Earths revolution. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The earths tilt. 3. The closest moon to Jupiter, ..... is volcanically active. A) Io. B) Callisto. C) Ganymede. D) Europa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Io. 4. All of the outer planets ..... A) Have many moons. B) Are small. C) Have a short orbit around the Sun. D) Are rocky. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have many moons. 5. Which technology would you use to analyze data from a NASA mission A) Computer. B) Telescope. C) Satellite. D) Rover. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Computer. 6. Which planets do not have moons? A) Mercury and Venus. B) Mercury and Mars. C) Mars and Saturn. D) Uranus and Neptune. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mercury and Venus. 7. The path a planet follows while it is revolving around the sun is called A) Orbit. B) Meteor. C) Asteroid. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Orbit. 8. Where can you go to get the most current information about our solar system? A) Mrs. Wieseman's course page. B) Your science textbook. C) In encyclopedias. D) NASA's website. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) NASA's website. 9. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Sun? A) It gives off heat and light. B) It is a ball of hot, glowing gas. C) It has rings and craters. D) It is a bright star. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It has rings and craters. 10. What holds the planets in their orbits around the sun? A) Gravity. B) Air currents. C) String. D) Speed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gravity. 11. An astronomical unit is the average distance between the Sun and which planet? A) Venus. B) Mars. C) Jupiter. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Earth. 12. One important factor that makes living things possible to life on Earth is ..... A) Tilted axis. B) Water. C) Gravity. D) Hydrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water. 13. How many rocky planets are in the Solar System A) 2. B) 4. C) 3. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 14. The Sun is the center of the ..... A) Solar system. B) Milky Way. C) Constellation Ursa Major. D) Universe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solar system. 15. What object in the solar system contains most of the mass? A) Sun. B) Moon. C) Earth. D) Jupiter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sun. 16. What unit of measurement is used to calculate distance in our universe? A) Kilometers. B) Astronomical units. C) Parsecs. D) Light years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Light years. 17. What is responsible for smaller objects in space continuously circling/orbiting larger objects? A) Light-year. B) Wind. C) Gravity. D) Air. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gravity. 18. One factor that makes life possible on Earth is A) Water. B) An atmospher. C) Gravity. D) Greenhouse effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water. 19. What is the most useful unit for measuring distances within the solar system? A) The centimeter. B) The astronomical unit. C) The parsec. D) The light-year. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The astronomical unit. 20. Which one is not an outer planet? A) Jupiter. B) Uranus. C) Neptune. D) Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mars. 21. Areas of gas on the sun's surface that are cooler than gases around them are called A) Sunspots. B) Corona. C) Prominences. D) Solarspots. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sunspots. 22. Who was the first person to study the night sky with a telescope? A) Ptolemy. B) Franklin. C) Galileo. D) Aristotle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Galileo. 23. What is the terminator on the moon? A) The light side of the Moon. B) The dark side of the Moon. C) The border between light and dark on the Moon. D) When the Moon casts a shadow on Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The border between light and dark on the Moon. 24. This planet has a retrograde rotation (rotates in the opposite direction of the other planets) A) Mercury. B) Venus. C) Earth. D) Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venus. 25. What is the sun mainly made from? A) Hydrogen + helium gas. B) Liquid lava. C) Molton iron. D) Rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hydrogen + helium gas. 26. When small pieces of rock moving through space enter Earth's atmosphere and completely burn up, they are called ..... A) Meteroids. B) Comets. C) Meteors. D) Asteroids. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meteors. 27. Between which two planets is the Asteroid Belt located? A) Venus and Earth. B) Mars and Jupiter. C) Uranus and Neptune. D) Earth and Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mars and Jupiter. 28. The fourth planet from the Sun; also known as the "red planet." A) Neptune. B) Mercury. C) Mars. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mars. 29. A planet that is very hot and has sulfuric acid in its clouds is ..... A) Earth. B) Venus. C) Mercury. D) Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venus. 30. How many moons does Uranus have? A) 1. B) 27. C) 63. D) 0. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 27. 31. One of the elements found on Mars is iron. Which feature of Mars is a result of iron combining with oxygen in the atmosphere of Mars? A) The reactivation of the planet's volcanoes. B) The planet's red color. C) The planet's breathable air. D) The planet's polar ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The planet's red color. 32. What keeps the planet in orbit around the sun? A) The earth's gravitational pull. B) The moons gravitational pull. C) The suns gravitational pull. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The suns gravitational pull. 33. The surface of this planet appears red due to rusting iron in the rocks. A) Mars. B) Mercury. C) Pluto. D) Venus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mars. 34. Which of these takes about one year to complete? A) The Sun to orbit Earth. B) Earth to orbit the Sun. C) The Moon to orbit Earth. D) Earth to rotate on its axis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earth to orbit the Sun. 35. Our Solar System ..... A) Is an arrangement of 8 planets that are very close together. B) Has 8 planets, but is mostly empty space. C) Has 9 planets that are very close together. D) Has 9 planets and is mostly empty space. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Has 8 planets, but is mostly empty space. 36. What is the second planet in our solar system A) Earth. B) Venus. C) Mars. D) Jupiter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venus. 37. Which of the following is the cause of Mercury having a shorter year than Jupiter A) Mercury orbits closer to the sun. B) Mercurys orbit is more circular than Jupiter. C) Mercury rotates at a slower speed than Jupiter. D) Mercury has a more elliptical orbit than Jupiter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mercury orbits closer to the sun. 38. Why does the Sun appear larger than other stars in the night sky? A) The Sun orbits the Earth. B) The Sun is the hottest star. C) The Sun is the closest star to Earth. D) The Sun is the biggest star in the Milky Way. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Sun is the closest star to Earth. 39. Copernicus' view of the universe A) Galaxy. B) Heliocentric. C) Geocentric. D) Astonomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heliocentric. 40. The group of inner planets are known as A) The Terrestrial Planets. B) The Gas Giants. C) The Outer Planets. D) The Hallow Planets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Terrestrial Planets. 41. Mars is often called ..... due to rust in rocks. A) Red Planet. B) Green Planet. C) Orange Planet. D) Blue Planet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red Planet. 42. What is the big bang theory? A) A planet. B) A theory of how the Universe began. C) A movie. D) A theory of how Jupiter will crash into Saturn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A theory of how the Universe began. 43. Which is considered a terrestrial planet with TWO moons? A) Earth. B) Jupiter. C) Mars. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mars. 44. Tom researches the planets and concludes that the outer planets have more moons than the inner planets. Which inquiry skill best helps him draw this conclusion? A) Observing. B) Making a model. C) Comparing. D) Hypothesizing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comparing. 45. Which planet is red because of iron oxide or rust? A) Saturn. B) Jupiter. C) Mars. D) Venus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mars. 46. All of the following are true about the Sun EXCEPT A) The Sun makes the light we see. B) The heat from the Sun is reflected from Moon to the Earth. C) Sunlight is Earth's primary source of energy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The heat from the Sun is reflected from Moon to the Earth. 47. How did our Solar System form? A) Through a giant crash of planets. B) Through a hot, spinning cloud of gases & dust. C) Through an explosion near the surface of Earth's atmosphere. D) None of these reasons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Through a hot, spinning cloud of gases & dust. 48. Where is the large collection of asteroids located? A) Between Earth and Mercury. B) Just outside our solar system. C) Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. D) Beyond the Oort cloud. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. 49. Which best describes a planet? A) It is a ball of hot gases. B) It produces its own light. C) It moves in an orbit around the Sun. D) It forms a pattern with the other planets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It moves in an orbit around the Sun. 50. The four terrestrial planets all have A) Hot temperatures. B) Deep atmospheres. C) Rocky surfaces. D) Large size. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rocky surfaces. 51. Over the years, how did scientists make new discoveries about objects that are far away from Earth? A) Read books. B) Built larger and more advanced telescopes. C) Stood on rooftops. D) Tested Earth's soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Built larger and more advanced telescopes. 52. What most people call a shooting star is really a(n) A) Comet. B) Meteor. C) Star. D) Asteroid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meteor. 53. Neptune has a spot called the ..... A) Small Pink Spot. B) Small Blue Dot. C) Great Dark Spot. D) Great Red Sport. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Great Dark Spot. 54. Choose the planet closest in size to Earth. A) Mars. B) Jupiter. C) The moon. D) The sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mars. 55. Which planet has the highest mountain and deepest valley in the solar system? A) Mercury. B) Venus. C) Mars. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mars. 56. The Great Red Spot, a continuous storm, is located on the planet ..... A) Neptune. B) Uranus. C) Jupiter. D) Saturn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jupiter. 57. Which of the following is true about the stars we see? A) They are all the same size. B) Most are only visible at night. C) There are about 30 visible stars. D) They are all the same distance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Most are only visible at night. 58. Which statement about the four outer planets is true? A) They all have rings that are easy to see. B) They are all made of rock. C) The all have no moons. D) They are all made of gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They are all made of gas. 59. Put the moon phases in order A) Quarter moon, half moon, full moon, new moon. B) New moon, half moon, full moon. C) New moon, crescent, first quarter, gibbous, last quarter, new moon. D) Ok no one cares!!!!!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New moon, crescent, first quarter, gibbous, last quarter, new moon. 60. Earth's orbit around the sun takes ..... A) 356 days. B) 12 hours. C) 24 hours. D) 365 days. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 365 days. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesSolar System Quiz 1Solar System Quiz 2Solar System Quiz 3Solar System Quiz 4Solar System Quiz 5Solar System Quiz 6Solar System Quiz 7Solar System Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books