Solar System Quiz 25 (25 MCQs)

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1. Which planet has a giant red spot?

2. Which of these has the strongest gravitational field?

3. Season changes and days being longer in the summer are due to _____

4. The closest moon to Jupiter, _____ is volcanically active.

5. All of the outer planets _____

6. Which technology would you use to analyze data from a NASA mission

7. Which planets do not have moons?

8. The path a planet follows while it is revolving around the sun is called

9. Where can you go to get the most current information about our solar system?

10. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Sun?

11. What holds the planets in their orbits around the sun?

12. An astronomical unit is the average distance between the Sun and which planet?

13. One important factor that makes living things possible to life on Earth is _____

14. How many rocky planets are in the Solar System

15. The Sun is the center of the _____

16. What object in the solar system contains most of the mass?

17. What unit of measurement is used to calculate distance in our universe?

18. What is responsible for smaller objects in space continuously circling/orbiting larger objects?

19. One factor that makes life possible on Earth is

20. What is the most useful unit for measuring distances within the solar system?

21. Which one is not an outer planet?

22. Areas of gas on the sun's surface that are cooler than gases around them are called

23. Who was the first person to study the night sky with a telescope?

24. What is the terminator on the moon?

25. This planet has a retrograde rotation (rotates in the opposite direction of the other planets)