This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Physics > Solar System – Quiz 36 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Solar System Quiz 36 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. If the days are cold and short A) The Sun is probably not tilted. B) The Sun is colder than usual. C) Earth is tilted toward the Sun. D) Earth is tilted away from the Sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Earth is tilted away from the Sun. 2. ..... move magma from the center of the Earth to the surface causing plates to move. A) Velocity. B) Convection Currents. C) Centrifugal Force. D) Gravity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Convection Currents. 3. A ..... is a huge system of billions of stars, clouds of dust and gases A) Asteroids. B) Celestial bodies. C) Meteors. D) Galaxy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Galaxy. 4. How many Moons does Mercury have? A) 0. B) 1. C) 2. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 0. 5. What are large chunks of rocks and metal in space? A) Earth. B) Comet. C) Asteroids. D) Gibbous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asteroids. 6. Which gas was introduced by stromatolites and allowed for more complex life to exist on Earth? A) Oxygen. B) Carbon dioxide. C) Sulfur oxides. D) Water vapor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxygen. 7. What keeps the planets in revolution around our sun? A) Gravity. B) Earth's rotation. C) Nothing. D) Orbital speed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gravity. 8. What is at the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy? A) Sun. B) Black Hole. C) Earth. D) Nebula. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Black Hole. 9. What characteristics do Earth and Venus share? A) They rotate in the same direction. B) They are both similar size and density. C) They have the same gases in their atmospheres. D) They were born at the same time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are both similar size and density. 10. Many stars are much larger than the Sun. However, the Sun appears to be larger than all other stars because it is ..... A) The oldest star in the galaxy. B) The closest of all the stars we see. C) Much colder than the other stars. D) The only one with planets around it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The closest of all the stars we see. 11. Which of these best describes the atmosphere surrounding Venus? A) Hot and poisonous. B) Cold and wet. C) Bright and sunny. D) Cold and snowy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hot and poisonous. 12. Select the order from smallest to largest. A) Sun, Milky Way, solar system, universe. B) Sun, Milky Way, universe, solar system. C) Sun, solar system, Milky Way, universe. D) Sun, solar system, universe, Milky Way. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sun, solar system, Milky Way, universe. 13. Which planet has the most visible rings? A) Neptune. B) Saturn. C) The sun. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saturn. 14. The curved path in which a planet, satellite, or spacecraft moves in a circle around another object. The path one object takes around another. A) Rotate. B) Orbit. C) Moon. D) Revolve. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Orbit. 15. The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion-law that states that an object in motion has a tendency to remain in motion-also plays a role in keeping the planets in a curved orbit around the sun A) Law of universal gravitation. B) Gravity. C) Astronomical law. D) Inertia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inertia. 16. Axis A) An imaginary line around which a rotating object turns. B) The act of orbiting a star. C) An imaginary line that cuts the Earth into the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere. D) A part of a solar system that contains the inner planetary bodies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An imaginary line around which a rotating object turns. 17. The moon orbits the ..... A) Sun. B) Jupiter. C) Solar system. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Earth. 18. Which statement is true about about the solar system? A) The gas giants are closer to the sun. B) The solid planets are closer to the sun. C) The solid planets are much larger than the gas giant planets. D) The planets are arranged by order of increasing size. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The solid planets are closer to the sun. 19. What are the constellations? A) The amount of time it takes for light to travel in one year. B) The arrangement of stars, in a pattern in the Night Sky. C) A rotating cloud of gases and dust. D) Frozen debris. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The arrangement of stars, in a pattern in the Night Sky. 20. Scientists have been able to find no atmosphere around this planet because it has little gravity and is closest to the sun. A) Mars. B) Venus. C) Mercury. D) Earth. 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