This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Physics > Solar System – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Solar System Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which planet is going to have life? A) Jupiter. B) Earth. C) Mars. D) Neptune. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mars. 2. Which of these planets is the farthest from the sun? A) Neptune. B) Earth. C) Jupiter. D) Mercury. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neptune. 3. What is an astronomical unit? A) Distance between the moon and earth. B) Distance between the earth and pluto. C) Distance between the earth and sun. D) Distance between NJ and Cali. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Distance between the earth and sun. 4. What is the basic shape of every planet's orbit? A) Square. B) Ellipse. C) Circle. D) Triangle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ellipse. 5. The table below shows four planets with the same mass and their distance from the Sun.Among planets that have the same mass, the colder the surface, the thicker the planet's atmosphere. Which of these planets should have the thickest atmosphere.w=19.2x=5.2y=1.5z=0.4 A) Y. B) Z. C) X. D) W. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) W. 6. The planet next to the sun is ..... A) Neptune. B) Earth. C) Mercury. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mercury. 7. Which planet is the solar system's largest rocky planet? A) Mercury. B) Mars. C) Jupiter. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Earth. 8. What object in the solar system is considered a dwarf planet? A) Mars. B) Pluto. C) Neptune. D) Mercury. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pluto. 9. What are the changing shapes of the Moon called? A) Spins. B) Plants. C) Orbits. D) Phases. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phases. 10. What unit do you use to express astronomical distances? A) The light-week. B) The light-year. C) The kilometer. D) The thunder-year. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The light-year. 11. The universe was born ..... A) 13700 million years ago. B) 13700 years ago. C) 17300 million years ago. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 13700 million years ago. 12. What is one fact about Earth? A) It is the hottest of the planets. B) It has 2 irregularly shaped moons. C) Its atmosphere is capable of supporting life. D) Its atmosphere is almost entirely carbon dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Its atmosphere is capable of supporting life. 13. What is the ISS? A) International Space Station. B) International Student Services. C) Iraq Space Services. D) Inside Sun Secrets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) International Space Station. 14. What planet is known as the red planet because of its red looking surface? A) Mars. B) Saturn. C) Uranus. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mars. 15. Earth is a unique planet because A) Because it is the blue planet. B) Because it is the only planet with life. C) Because it is the third planet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because it is the only planet with life. 16. Besides changing the distance between objects how else can we change the force of gravity? A) Change their atmosphere. B) Change their volume. C) Change their rotation. D) Change their mass. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Change their mass. 17. Which planet has very prominent rings? A) Saturn. B) Neptune. C) Uranus. D) Jupiter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Saturn. 18. Terrestrial planet A) A planet that has a hard, rocky surface. B) A planet that has a deep atmosphere and no rocky surface. C) A planet that rotates on its axis like Earth. D) All planets that orbit the Sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A planet that has a hard, rocky surface. 19. Even though it is not closest to the sun, this planet is the hottest in the solar system. A) Venus. B) Jupiter. C) Uranus. D) Pluto. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Venus. 20. What makes up the Solar System? A) The Milky Way. B) The planets, the sun, any moons, and other bodies that revolve. C) The 4 oceans. D) Comets, asteroids, and meteors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The planets, the sun, any moons, and other bodies that revolve. 21. Where is our solar system located in the Milky Way A) Near the center. B) On a spiral arm. C) Outside the galaxy. D) At the center. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On a spiral arm. 22. When the inner planets (and moons) were bombarded by asteroids, what did the asteroids leave behind? A) Craters. B) Calderas. C) Mountains. D) Valleys. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Craters. 23. Which choice best describes the parts of the Milky Way? A) Earth, its moon, the sun, and Jupiter. B) Gas, dust, stars, and objects that orbit stars. C) Asteroids, comets, objects that orbit stars, and the stars. D) The inner planets, the outer planets, gas, and dust. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gas, dust, stars, and objects that orbit stars. 24. Which details explain how the sun appears to change throughout the day? A) In the morning, the sun is low in the sky. B) At noon (midday) the sun in high in the sky. C) In the evening, the sun is low in the sky. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 25. The planet that averages 150 million km, or on AU, from the Sun is ..... A) Earth. B) Jupiter. C) Mercury. D) Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Earth. 26. What is our planet's name? A) Mars. B) Mercury. C) Earth. D) Venus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earth. 27. The Galilean moons orbit what planet? A) Uranus. B) Venus. C) Jupiter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jupiter. 28. Which of the following is NOT considered a planet? A) Earth. B) Saturn. C) Uranus. D) Asteroid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asteroid. 29. Planet is called the Red planet because of its red soil and rocks. Color comes from oxidation (iron oxide, rust) A) Mercury. B) Venus. C) Mars. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mars. 30. What do we call the distance from the Earth to the Sun? A) A light minute. B) A light year. C) An Astronomical Unit. D) A light second. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An Astronomical Unit. 31. As a nebula collapses it also begins A) Expand. B) Rotate. C) Shake. D) Turn to ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rotate. 32. What evidence supports the hypothesis that Earth is 4.6 billion years? A) The age of rocks from the Moon. B) The age of zircon grains in granitic crustal rocks. C) The age of meteorites. D) All of the above answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above answers are correct. 33. An average star; made of gas A) Moon. B) Comet. C) Dwarf planet. D) Sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sun. 34. What is the second planet to Sun? A) Mars. B) Venus. C) Earth. D) Mercury. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venus. 35. A ..... is the blocking of the Sun's light that occurs during a new moon when the moon's shadow falls on earth. A) Solar eclipse. B) Penumbra. C) Lunar eclipse. D) Umbra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solar eclipse. 36. What is The Earth mostly made up of? A) Sheep. B) Grass. C) Water. D) People. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water. 37. What is one way that gas giants differ from the terrestrial planets? A) They are much smaller. B) They are made of rocks and ice. C) Their atmospheres are massive. D) Their surfaces are hard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Their atmospheres are massive. 38. What characteristic is Jupiter known for? A) Rings of ice and dust. B) Great Red Spot. C) Olympus Mons. D) Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Great Red Spot. 39. Between which two planets does the Asteroid Belt lie? A) Jupiter and Saturn. B) Mars andJupiter. C) Earth and Mars. D) Uranus and Neptune. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mars andJupiter. 40. Which two planets are closest to the Sun? A) Mars and Earth. B) Neptune and Uranus. C) Mars and Venus. D) Venus and Mercury. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Venus and Mercury. 41. An astronomical unit is approximately how many kilometers? A) 175 million. B) 125 million. C) 200 million. D) 150 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 150 million. 42. Dense materials such as molten iron sank to Earth's center and less dense materials were forced to the outer layers in a process called A) Squeezerizing. B) Sinkeration. C) Differentiation. D) Denseration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Differentiation. 43. How are dwarf planets different from the 'Elite 8' planets? A) Dwarf planets orbit the Sun, planets do not. B) Dwarf planets have more mass than planets. C) Dwarf planets have not cleared the neighborhood around their orbit, planets have. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dwarf planets have not cleared the neighborhood around their orbit, planets have. 44. Which of the following occurs on Mars? A) Dust storms. B) Hurricanes. C) Blizzards. D) Tidal waves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dust storms. 45. The solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago when a disk of dust and gas was pulled together by A) Asteroids. B) Gravity. C) Thermal Energy. D) Meteoroids. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gravity. 46. Which planet is tipped on its side nearly 90 degrees? A) Saturn. B) Neptune. C) Jupiter. D) Uranus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Uranus. 47. The height of a point on the Earth's surface above sea level. A) Altitude. B) Elevation. C) Height. D) Sea level. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elevation. 48. In terms of orbit, the Earth is to the sun as what is to the Earth? A) Venus. B) The moon. C) Mars. D) A comet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The moon. 49. USA and Russia race to send ..... to land on the Moon in 1960's. A) Probes. B) Astronaut. C) Astronomer. D) Asteroid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Astronaut. 50. Day and night is created by the way the Earth moves around the sun. What is this movement called? A) Seasons. B) Solar System. C) Phases. D) Rotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rotation. 51. This is the phase of the moon when the moon looks like a thin sliver (less than half of the moon's nearside is sunlit). A) Gibbous. B) Crescent. C) Full. D) New. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crescent. 52. What is the correct order of the planets? A) Mercury, Earth, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars. B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. C) Neptune, Jupiter, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Uranus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. 53. Choose the largest planet in our solar system. A) Mercury. B) Earth. C) Neptune. D) Jupiter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jupiter. 54. Mason, Bowen, and Damian made statements about their observations of the sun. What might be some the observations the students may have made? A) The Sun gives Earth light. B) The Sun give the Earth heat. C) The Sun is bright. D) All the above statements could be observed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above statements could be observed. 55. Which of the following planets are all outer planets? A) Pluto, Neptune, Jupiter, Saturn. B) Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus. C) Mercury, Pluto, Venus, Saturn. D) Venus, Mars, Earth, Mercury. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus. 56. The moon appears to change shape because of ..... A) The movement of stars in they sky. B) Earth's rotation on its axis. C) The Moon's revolution around Earth. D) The seasons of the year. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Moon's revolution around Earth. 57. Who used the telescope to observe the heavens? A) Copernicus. B) Galileo. C) Ptolemy. D) Kepler. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Galileo. 58. The inner planets are A) Saturn, Uranus, Mars, Earth. B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. C) Earth, Pluto, Neptune, Mars. D) Jupiter, Earth, Mars, Mercury. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. 59. Which of these tools enabled Galileo to study parts of the universe that had never been seen? A) Microscope. B) Geometry. C) Compass. D) Telescope. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Telescope. 60. The Earth's magnetic field protects us from A) Solar Flares. B) Keeps the atmosphere in place. C) Both A and B. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both A and B. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesSolar System Quiz 1Solar System Quiz 2Solar System Quiz 3Solar System Quiz 4Solar System Quiz 6Solar System Quiz 7Solar System Quiz 8Solar System Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books