Solar System Quiz 20 (25 MCQs)

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1. What factors determine the gravitational force between Moon and Earth?

2. One of the main differences between the outer and inner planets is _____

3. What lunar features was Eric Wu asked to photograph for a magazine?

4. A large, round object in space that travels around a star.

5. What does Jupiter have in common with Neptune?

6. Complete the analogy. Oceanographer is to ocean, as astronomer is to

7. What is the term used to the smaller masses of dust, rock and other materials that quickly cooled to become solid bodies of the solar system?

8. The path of one object in space around another object

9. Meteoroids that reach Earth's surface

10. What is the nebular hypothesis?

11. Asteroids "hang out" in our solar system in a place called

12. What is in the center of the Heliocentric Model?

13. These two planets are the largest gas planets.

14. What planet is known as the Red Planet?

15. Which does NOT describe our Sun?

16. What celestial body is made of ice and cosmic dust?

17. Which planet is known for its rings?

18. Neptune is larger than Saturn.

19. What does a waxing moon mean?

20. A tool used to make distant objects appear larger, brighter, and sharper.

21. Galileo agreed with Copernicus theory because he _____

22. Where is the main asteroid belt found?

23. Which is NOT a planet?

24. As distance between two objects increase the pull of gravity

25. Which is the shape of the Earth?