Solar System Quiz 37 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which does NOT have an effect on how strongly the Sun pulls on an object in space?

Correct Answer: C) The fact that the Sun is made of a mixture of gases.

2. Made up of a star and the planets and other space objects that revolve around it

Correct Answer: B) Solar system.

3. Name the four Inner Planets

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

4. Name the star closest to Earth.

Correct Answer: B) Sun.

5. People used to think that Earth was the center if the solar system, They thought everything orbited around it. They called this the ..... model.

Correct Answer: A) Geocentric.

6. What is a large, ball-shaped body that revolves around the sun called?

Correct Answer: C) A planet.

7. Two planets with similar mass and size are .....

Correct Answer: D) Venus and Earth.

8. Which formed first after the big bang?

Correct Answer: D) The universe.

9. Which correctly pairs the planet with how many moons it has?

Correct Answer: A) Mercury-None.

10. Which is the farthest planet from the sun?

Correct Answer: D) Neptune.

11. What is the difference between a meteor and a meteorite?

Correct Answer: A) A meteor burns up in the atmosphere, a meteorite hits the ground.

12. These planets have more mass, they are large and gaseous, and farther from the sun.

Correct Answer: B) Outer planets.

13. Together a star and all the planets and other object orbiting it form a(n)

Correct Answer: C) Solar system.

14. The planet made up of mostly hydrogen and helium?

Correct Answer: B) Jupiter.

15. What is one fact about Neptune?

Correct Answer: D) It was discovered in 1846.

16. A planet made of mostly gases, such as Hydrogen or Helium

Correct Answer: B) Gaseous Planet.

17. How do stars glow?

Correct Answer: B) Nuclear reactions in the stars core produce Energy that eventually reaches the surface.

18. What two forms of energy does the sun give off?

Correct Answer: B) Heat and light.

19. The correct term for the way Earth spins on it's axis is .....?

Correct Answer: A) Rotate.

20. An astronomical unit (AU) is the average distance

Correct Answer: D) Between Earth and the sun.