This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Physics > Solar System – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Solar System Quiz 26 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A small object that appears as a streak of light as it enters earth's atmosphere. A) Asteroid. B) Comet. C) Moon. D) Meteor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meteor. 2. 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. 3. What is one factor that makes life possible on Earth? A) A run-away greenhouse effect. B) Liquid water on its surface. C) High surface gravity. D) An irregular planetary orbit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Liquid water on its surface. 4. 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. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. What lunar features was Eric Wu asked to photograph for a magazine? A) Mountains. B) Terminator. C) Mars. D) Craters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Craters. 8. A large, round object in space that travels around a star. A) Solar system. B) Orbit. C) Planet. D) Revolve. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Planet. 9. What does Jupiter have in common with Neptune? A) They're both red in color. B) They're both terrestrial planets. C) They both have exactly three moons. D) They both have large storm "spots". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They both have large storm "spots". 10. Complete the analogy. Oceanographer is to ocean, as astronomer is to A) Animals. B) Rocks and minerals. C) Maps. D) Space. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Space. 11. 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? A) Nebula. B) Planetesimal. C) Primordial core. D) Protoplanetary disc. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Planetesimal. 12. The path of one object in space around another object A) Orbit. B) Axis. C) Rotate. D) Revolve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Orbit. 13. Meteoroids that reach Earth's surface A) Meteoroid. B) Meteor. C) Meteorite. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meteorite. 14. What is the nebular hypothesis? A) Prediction about how the universe was formed. B) Prediction of how the moon was formed. C) Prediction of how comets were formed. D) Prediction of how the Solar System was formed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prediction of how the Solar System was formed. 15. Asteroids "hang out" in our solar system in a place called A) The Kupier Belt. B) The Oort Cloud. C) The Planetary Rings. D) The Asteroid Belt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Asteroid Belt. 16. What is condensation? A) Rocks and metals sticking together. B) Gasses and Ices sticking together. C) How the inner planets formed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gasses and Ices sticking together. 17. What is in the center of the Heliocentric Model? A) Sun. B) Comet. C) Jupiter. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sun. 18. These two planets are the largest gas planets. A) Mars and Neptune. B) Earth and Pluto. C) Mercury and Venus. D) Jupiter and Saturn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jupiter and Saturn. 19. Which does NOT describe our Sun? A) It is part of the Milky Way galaxy. B) It is the center of the universe. C) It holds 99% of the mass in the solar system. D) It is one of billions of stars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is the center of the universe. 20. What celestial body is made of ice and cosmic dust? A) Meteor. B) Meteoroid. C) Asteroid. D) Comet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comet. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesSolar System Quiz 1Solar System Quiz 2Solar System Quiz 3Solar System Quiz 4Solar System Quiz 5Solar System Quiz 6Solar System Quiz 7Solar System Quiz 8Solar System Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books