This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Physics > Solar System – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Solar System Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Earth's 24 hour day is caused by its ..... A) Moon's orbiting around it. B) Rotation on its axis. C) Eclipsing the sun. D) Revolution around the sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rotation on its axis. 2. Gravity depends on ..... A) Mass. B) Mass and distance. C) Weight. D) Distance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mass and distance. 3. Which term best describes how the solar system formed? A) Gradually. B) Rapidly. C) Electrically. D) Chemically. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gradually. 4. What is the name of the storm on Jupiter? A) The Red. B) The Great Red Spot. C) The Storm. D) The Spot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Great Red Spot. 5. The terrestrial planets include Mars, Venus, Earth, and which other planet? A) Saturn. B) Mercury. C) Uranus. D) Jupiter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mercury. 6. The chemical element uranium was named after what planet? A) Mars. B) Earth. C) Venus. D) Uranus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Uranus. 7. What planet currently has the rover Perserverance on its surface? A) Uranus. B) Venus. C) Jupiter. D) Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mars. 8. I am the fourth planet from the Sun. I am also called as the red planet. A) Uranus. B) Mars. C) Mercury. D) Venus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mars. 9. Which planet rotates COMPLETELY ON ITS SIDE? A) Mars. B) Venus. C) Uranus. D) Neptune. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Uranus. 10. The inner 4 planets are called ..... A) Gas giants. B) Terrestrial planets. C) Small planets. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Terrestrial planets. 11. What planet is closest in size to Earth? A) Earth. B) Venus. C) Saturn. D) Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venus. 12. I am the second planet from the Sun. I am the brightest planet in the solar system. A) Neptune. B) Venus. C) Mercury. D) Saturn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venus. 13. What are the four properties that make it possible for Earth to support life? A) Water, location, atmosphere, temperature. B) Oxygen, location, temperature, water. C) Air, dirt, water, trees. D) Shelter, water, food, clothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water, location, atmosphere, temperature. 14. Stars are different colors because A) Some are bigger than others. B) Some are closer to Earth than others. C) Some have different temperatures than others. D) The color depends on their solar system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Some have different temperatures than others. 15. Dark areas can form in the photosphere of the sun. These areas are cooler than surrounding areas. They also have a strong magnetic field. Which term best describes these dark areas? A) Prominence. B) Sunspot. C) Solar wind. D) Solar flare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sunspot. 16. Which planet is between Venus and Mars? A) Mercury. B) Neptune. C) Jupiter. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Earth. 17. What causes day and night here on our Earth? A) Stars. B) The different moon phases. C) The rotation of Earth. D) Asteroids. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The rotation of Earth. 18. Why does the sun seem to change position in the sky? A) Earth's orbit. B) The sun's rotation. C) The sun's orbit. D) Earth's rotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Earth's rotation. 19. Which technology would you use to collect rock samples from a nearby planet? A) Satellite. B) Computer. C) Telescope. D) Rover. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rover. 20. What are the gaseous planets? A) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. B) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. C) Mercury Venus, Earth Neptune. D) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. 21. What object in the solar system is considered a dwarf planet (too small)? A) Pluto. B) Mars. C) Mercury. D) Neptune. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pluto. 22. What does "helios" mean? A) Sun. B) Moon. C) Center of. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sun. 23. A cloud of gases around the solid portion of a comet is known as the ..... A) Nucleus. B) Core. C) Coma. D) Heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coma. 24. What is the sun made of? A) Burning hot gas, helium and hydrogen. B) Carbon monoxide. C) Fire. D) Molten lava. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Burning hot gas, helium and hydrogen. 25. The largest planet in the solar system. Made mostly of hydrogen and helium. The planet is 300 times the mass of Earth. A) Jupiter. B) Uranus. C) Saturn. D) Neptune. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jupiter. 26. Which planet is the hottest planet? A) Mars. B) Saturn. C) Venus. D) Mercury. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Venus. 27. What planet has thousands of beautiful, tiny rings made of chunks of ice and rock? A) Mars. B) Neptune. C) Saturn. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saturn. 28. Why does the sun appear to change throughout the day? A) The Sun gets closer to Earth. B) The moon blocks the sun. C) Spaceships move in front of the sun. D) Earth rotates. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Earth rotates. 29. Which planet is the hottest planet because of its clouds? A) Venus. B) Pluto. C) Earth. D) Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Venus. 30. Which statement best describes a galaxy? A) A cluster of millions of stars held together by gravity. B) A star, with planets, moons and other small space bodies revolving around it. C) All known objects. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A cluster of millions of stars held together by gravity. 31. Most planets in our solar system have at least one natural satellite, or ..... A) Asteroid. B) Moon. C) Star. D) Crater. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Moon. 32. ..... believed sun and planets revolved around the Earth, the Geocentric model of the solar system A) Kelper. B) Galileo. C) Ptolemy. D) Copernicus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ptolemy. 33. Why did people believe in the Geocentric vs the Heliocentric solar system? A) Geocentric system had been around for a LONG time. B) People don't like change. C) There wasn't enough proof to support the Heliocentric system. D) All of these answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these answers are correct. 34. Mercury is 0.387 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun. What does this indicate about Mercury? A) Mercury has an eccentric orbit. B) Mercury is smaller than the Sun. C) Mercury is closer to the Sun than Earth. D) Mercury is the brightest planet seen from Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mercury is closer to the Sun than Earth. 35. Which thing is a huge ball of hot gases that gives off heat and light? A) A star. B) A planet. C) A spaceship. D) A moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A star. 36. Where would you see the most shadows? A) Outside on a cloudy day. B) Inside a dark room. C) Outside on a sunny day. D) Inside a closet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Outside on a sunny day. 37. Which direction do all of the planets go around the sun? A) Clockwise. B) Horizontal. C) Counter-clockwise. D) Verticle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Counter-clockwise. 38. Which of the following aspects of the solar system contributes most to the motion of the planets? A) Radiation from nearby stars. B) Magnetic field around the planets. C) Gravitational attraction of the sun. D) Friction with the atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gravitational attraction of the sun. 39. A planet that appears reddish-yellow due to iron oxide in its rocks is ..... A) Mercury. B) Jupiter. C) Mars. D) Uranus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mars. 40. A ball of ice and dust with a tail of gas and dust pointing away from the sun. A) Asteroid. B) Moon. C) Meteor. D) Comet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comet. 41. An ..... is between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. A) Asteroid belt. B) Oort Cloud. C) Kuiper belt. D) Photosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asteroid belt. 42. What is one fact about Saturn? A) It the least dense of the planets. B) It is the hottest of the planets. C) It was discovered in 1846. D) Its atmosphere is almost entirely carbon dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It the least dense of the planets. 43. The last inner planet is called ..... A) Mars. B) Neptune. C) Jupiter. D) Mercury. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mars. 44. What object that can be found in a ring that is between mars and Jupiter and orbit the sun? A) Asteroid. B) Dwarf planet. C) Planets. D) Comet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asteroid. 45. Which of these statements BEST describes the Sun? A) It has a shiny surface that reflects light. B) It is a ball of hot, glowing gas. C) It has a hard, solid surface. D) It is very cold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is a ball of hot, glowing gas. 46. What tool would you use to look at all of these:a planet, the sun, asteroids, comets, and the moon? A) Microscope. B) Telescope. C) Eye. D) Convex lens. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Telescope. 47. Large bodies that revolve around the sun are ..... A) Solar Systems. B) Planets. C) Comets. D) Asteroids. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Planets. 48. What is the Moon made out of A) Flowers. B) Rocks. C) Gases. D) Stars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rocks. 49. Galileo gathered evidence through observing Jupiter and Venus through telescopes that pointed towards a sun-centered solar system. What is the name of this sun-centered model of our solar system? A) Heliocentric Model. B) Geocentric Model. C) Lunar Model. D) Galaxy Model. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heliocentric Model. 50. What planet is the same size as earth? A) Saturn. B) Pluto. C) Mars. D) Venus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Venus. 51. What is the name of pluto's moon? A) Cornent. B) Charon. C) Kelper. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charon. 52. Pieces of space rock that are too small to be planets or dwarf planets but still revolve around the sun A) Asteroids. B) Meteor. C) Meteoroid. D) Comets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asteroids. 53. Planets do not make their own light, rather they ..... light. A) Create. B) Reflect. C) Generate. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reflect. 54. The outer planets are ..... A) Rocky and small. B) Very large and made of ice. C) Small and made of ice. D) Very large and made of gases. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Very large and made of gases. 55. A student draws a scientifically accurate model of the solar system. Which is NOT a piece of information that the student needs to make their model? A) The size of Mars. B) The shape of the Milky Way galaxy. C) The distance between the Sun and each planet. D) The shape of Earth's orbit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The shape of the Milky Way galaxy. 56. Which is considered the hottest planet? A) Venus. B) Mars. C) The sun. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Venus. 57. Which planet is furthest away from the sun? A) Mercury. B) Venus. C) Jupiter. D) Neptune. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neptune. 58. What is the nearest star to the sun? A) Sirius. B) Proxima Centauri. C) Capella. D) Alpha Centauri. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proxima Centauri. 59. Correct statement about meteor is ..... A) Made up of gas. B) Located near Moon. C) Rocks that orbit the Sun. D) It is also called as shooting stars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is also called as shooting stars. 60. What planet is eighth in the Solar System? A) Neptune. B) Jupiter. C) Mars. D) Uranus. 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