This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Physics > Solar System – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Solar System Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Ptolemy's view of the universe A) Astonomy. B) Galaxy. C) Heliocentric. D) Geocentric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geocentric. 2. What is a fact about the OUTER planets? A) They are smaller. B) They are made of rock. C) They are made of gas. D) They have no rings. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are made of gas. 3. I am the third planet from the sun. I orbited by one moon. I am also called and the blue and living planet. A) Mars. B) Earth. C) Saturn. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earth. 4. Which two planets are out of order in this list of our solar system? Mercury-Earth-Venus-Mars-Jupiter-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune-Pluto. A) Mercury and Earth. B) Earth and Venus. C) Saturn and Jupiter. D) Uranus and Neptune. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earth and Venus. 5. What force keeps the moon in orbit around the Earth? A) Friction. B) Gravity. C) Interia. D) Latitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gravity. 6. The north star is also called A) Leo. B) Solar. C) Pole star. D) Satellite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pole star. 7. Which planet(s) have rings? A) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. B) Saturn and Neptune. C) Saturn and Uranus. D) Saturn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. 8. What would be the best model to show the Earth's rotation? A) A globe that spins. B) A map that shows all the parts of Earth. C) A picture that shows how far Earth is from the sun. D) A person riding a bike. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A globe that spins. 9. Why is the sun important to the earth? A) It gives our planet light and heat. Many food chains begin with the sun. B) Summer. C) To get tanned. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It gives our planet light and heat. Many food chains begin with the sun. 10. The largest of ..... moons, Titan, is larger than the planet Mercury. A) Uranus'. B) Neptune's. C) Saturn's. D) Pluto's. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saturn's. 11. Many of the stars in the night sky are much larger than our Sun, but appear much smaller. Our Sun APPEARS larger than other bigger stars because the Sun A) Much cooler. B) Is a yellow star. C) Much hotter. D) Much closer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Much closer. 12. Which planet is found in between Venus and Mars? A) Mercury. B) Earth. C) Uranus. D) Jupiter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earth. 13. Which outer planets have rings? A) Just Saturn. B) Saturn and Jupiter. C) Jupiter, Neptune, and Saturn. D) All 4 of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All 4 of them. 14. Which item in space is an average-sized yellow star that is about 1.39 million kilometers in diameter? A) Moon. B) Sun. C) Earth. D) Jupiter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sun. 15. How many moons does Jupiter have? A) 4. B) None. C) 37. D) At least 67. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) At least 67. 16. What does 'orbit' means? A) To fly into outer space. B) The spinning of the planet. C) The path a planet takes around the Sun. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The path a planet takes around the Sun. 17. When Galileo peered into the telescope and saw that Venus went through phases, what did this suggest? A) Venus must be orbiting the Sun. B) Venus had a moon orbiting it. C) The telescope must possibly be wrong. D) Venus had moons just like Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Venus must be orbiting the Sun. 18. ..... is the closest planet to the sun. A) Neptune. B) Mercury. C) Venus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mercury. 19. Includes the 8 planets, dwarf planets, moons, and other objects that obit the sun. A) Inner planets. B) Solar system. C) Outer planets. D) Universe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solar system. 20. A planet with a rocky surface A) Earth. B) Terrestrial Planet. C) Rocky Planet. D) Gaseous Planet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Terrestrial Planet. 21. Which planet is the farthest away from our sun? A) Mars. B) Uranus. C) Neptune. D) Jupiter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neptune. 22. Which two scientists developed a model of the solar system most like the one used today? A) Copernicus & Ptolemy. B) Aristotle & Ptolemy. C) Copernicus & Galileo. D) Galileo & Aristotle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Copernicus & Galileo. 23. Which best describes the terrestrial planets? A) Large, planetary rings. B) Small, dense, rocky. C) Rocky cores, close to sun, surface craters. D) Made of helium and hydrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Small, dense, rocky. 24. Which of the following is a common characteristic of outer planets? A) Shorter years. B) Have rings. C) Terrestrial. D) Less than 5 satellites. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Have rings. 25. This gas giant has a large storm in its atmosphere known as The Red Spot A) Saturn. B) Neptune. C) Jupiter. D) Uranus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jupiter. 26. The largest of celestial bodies that revolve around the sun are ..... A) Solar Systems. B) Comets. C) Planets. D) Asteroids. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Planets. 27. Which of these items is not needed to sustain life in space? A) Tools. B) Water. C) Food. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tools. 28. A small body that orbits a planet is a(n) A) Exoplanet. B) Asteroid. C) Moon. D) Comet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moon. 29. The biggest planet is ..... A) Saturn. B) Jupiter. C) Mars. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jupiter. 30. What is the largest object in our solar system? A) Jupiter. B) Uranus. C) Neptune. D) The sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The sun. 31. Which phrase best describes the heliocentric model of the solar system? A) Sun-centered. B) Planet-centered. C) Moon-centered. D) Earth-centered. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sun-centered. 32. The Terrestrial planets all have what common characteristic? A) Deep, gaseous atmospheres. B) Orbit farther from the sun. C) Larger orbits. D) Rocky surfaces. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rocky surfaces. 33. Two factors effecting the magnitude of the force of gravity between 2 objects are ..... A) Mass and distance. B) Mass and matter. C) Distance and weight. D) Weight and mass. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mass and distance. 34. What factor causes one planet to have more gravity than other planets A) The planets mass. B) The planets size. C) Gas giants have more gravity. D) Terrestrial planets have more gravity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The planets mass. 35. Which planet has the Big Red Spot? A) Neptune. B) Saturn. C) Mars. D) Jupiter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jupiter. 36. The Sun is at the center of our solar system. All the planets in the solar system orbit around the Sun. Which of the following planets has the longest orbit? A) Saturn. B) Earth. C) Neptune. D) Mercury. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neptune. 37. Why do the planets orbit the sun? A) They don't, the planets orbit the Earth. B) The sun is so massive that it has a very large gravitational pull, which causes objects to orbit it. C) Because Science. D) Because they want to. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The sun is so massive that it has a very large gravitational pull, which causes objects to orbit it. 38. Which of Kepler's Laws described the shape of a planet's orbit? A) First Law. B) Second Law. C) Third Law. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First Law. 39. What does it mean to orbit? A) Path one object takes around another. B) To chew gum. C) To travel from one planet to another. D) Planets and other objects in space that travels around a star. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Path one object takes around another. 40. All planets have the following characteristics EXCEPT A) They revolve. B) They have an atmosphere. C) They have elliptical orbits. D) They rotate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They have an atmosphere. 41. What is the time it takes for an object to spin (on its axis) in a circle A) Rotation. B) Spin. C) Revolution. D) Turn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rotation. 42. During which phases of the Moon can a person observe the occurrence of neap tides? A) Full moon and new moon. B) Full moon and first quarter. C) New moon and third quarter. D) First quarter and third quarter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) First quarter and third quarter. 43. The star at the center of our solar system. A) Sun. B) Betelgeuse. C) Moon. D) Polaris. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sun. 44. How does the sun produce energy? A) Nuclear Fission. B) Nuclear Fusion. C) Attracting it with gravity. D) It doesn't produce energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nuclear Fusion. 45. What are Saturn's rings made of? A) Gold. B) Silver. C) Dust and ice. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dust and ice. 46. Which of the following is a reason that life exists on Earth? A) Distance from the Sun. B) Presence of an atmosphere and magnetic field. C) Liquid water. D) All of these are reasons life exists on Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these are reasons life exists on Earth. 47. What causes it to appear as if the sun rises and sets each day? A) The spinning motion of Earth. B) Earth's distance from the sun. C) Earth's gravity. D) The revolution of the Earth around the sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The spinning motion of Earth. 48. A chunk of rock or iron that is less than 1, 000 km (621mi) in diameter and that orbits the sun is call a(n) A) Star. B) Solar eclipse. C) Asteroid. D) Solar system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asteroid. 49. ..... is covered with gas that smells like stinky eggs. A) Uranus. B) Saturn. C) Neptune. D) Venus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uranus. 50. The seasons are related to A) The Moon's rotation. B) The Earth's rotation. C) The Moon's revolution around the Earth. D) The Earth's revolution around the Sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Earth's revolution around the Sun. 51. Which planet is farther from the sun than Venus but closer than Mars? A) Jupiter. B) Uranus. C) Earth. D) Mercury. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earth. 52. One complete rotation of Earth around the sun is what? A) 31 days or 1 month. B) 365 days or 1 year. C) 7 days or 1 week. D) 24 hours or 1 day. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 365 days or 1 year. 53. A nebula starts to collapse because of A) A nearby star shining it's light. B) Gravity. C) A passing spaceship. D) A passing comet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gravity. 54. Which figure is closest to the age of the solar system? A) 450 million years. B) 450, 000 years. C) 4.5 million years. D) 4.5 billion years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4.5 billion years. 55. The center of our solar system is the ..... A) Moon. B) Asteroid belt. C) Earth. D) Sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sun. 56. A small object that appears as a streak of light as it enters earth's atmosphere. A) Moon. B) Meteor. C) Asteroid. D) Comet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meteor. 57. Earth and its solar system are a part of which of the following galaxies? A) Cartwheel. B) Milky Way. C) Black Way. D) Andromeda. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Milky Way. 58. What factors determine the gravitational force between Moon and Earth? A) The mass of the two objects. B) The diameter of the two objects. C) The mass of the objects and how far apart they are. D) The diameter of the objects and how far apart they are. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The mass of the objects and how far apart they are. 59. How do moons move? A) Moons rotate around their planet and revolve on their axis. B) Moon rotate around their planet and rotate on their axis. C) Moons revolve around their planet and rotate on their axis. D) Moons revolve around their planet and revolve on their axis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moons revolve around their planet and rotate on their axis. 60. One of the main differences between the outer and inner planets is ..... A) The inner planets all have water. B) The inner planets are much bigger than the outer planets. C) The outer planets are gas planets. D) The outer planets have rings, and the inner planets don't. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The outer planets are gas planets. ← 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books