Solar System Quiz 16 (20 MCQs)

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1. The height of a point on the Earth's surface above sea level.

Correct Answer: C) Elevation.

2. In terms of orbit, the Earth is to the sun as what is to the Earth?

Correct Answer: B) The moon.

3. USA and Russia race to send ..... to land on the Moon in 1960's.

Correct Answer: C) Astronaut.

4. Day and night is created by the way the Earth moves around the sun. What is this movement called?

Correct Answer: A) Rotation.

5. Which planet do we live on?

Correct Answer: A) Earth.

6. 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).

Correct Answer: A) Crescent.

7. What is the correct order of the planets?

Correct Answer: B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

8. Choose the largest planet in our solar system.

Correct Answer: A) Jupiter.

9. Mason, Bowen, and Damian made statements about their observations of the sun. What might be some the observations the students may have made?

Correct Answer: D) All the above statements could be observed.

10. Which of the following planets are all outer planets?

Correct Answer: C) Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus.

11. The moon appears to change shape because of .....

Correct Answer: A) The Moon's revolution around Earth.

12. Planet

Correct Answer: C) An object that directly revolves around a star, has a nearly spherical shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.

13. Who used the telescope to observe the heavens?

Correct Answer: D) Galileo.

14. The inner planets are

Correct Answer: D) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars.

15. Which of these tools enabled Galileo to study parts of the universe that had never been seen?

Correct Answer: D) Telescope.

16. The Earth's magnetic field protects us from

Correct Answer: C) Both A and B.

17. The inner planets are called terrestrial planets because they are composed of

Correct Answer: D) Rocks.

18. The Word "Helio" Refers To?

Correct Answer: C) Sun.

19. The ..... is the largest body in our solar system.

Correct Answer: D) Sun.

20. The sixth planet from the Sun; known for its large rings.

Correct Answer: A) Saturn.