Solar System Quiz 38 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which is saturns moon

Correct Answer: B) Rhea.

2. A rocky body that orbits around a planet.

Correct Answer: A) Moon.

3. What percentage of the mass in the nebula will the Sun accumulate?

Correct Answer: A) 99%.

4. Where is the asteroid belt?

Correct Answer: A) Between the inner and outer planets.

5. Moon

Correct Answer: A) A celestial object that indirectly revolves around a star.

6. The primary force behind planetary orbits is

Correct Answer: B) Gravity.

7. How long does it take to go through the phases of the Moon cycle?

Correct Answer: D) About one month.

8. Choose the third planet in the solar system.

Correct Answer: D) Earth.

9. Ptolemy and Aristotle believed

Correct Answer: C) The Sun and planets traveled around Earth.

10. ..... Earths can be fit into Jupiter.

Correct Answer: B) 1300.

11. The largest known volcano in the solar system is an extinct volcano known as Olympus Mons found on the planet .....

Correct Answer: A) Mars.

12. What was the initial explosion that resulted in the formation and expansion of the universe?

Correct Answer: A) Big bang.

13. Mars orbits farther from the Sun than

Correct Answer: B) Venus.

14. Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn and Neptune are known as ..... planets.

Correct Answer: A) Gaseous.

15. Which star has the highest apparent magnitude because it is closer to Earth?

Correct Answer: C) Our Sun.

16. How long does it take the Earth to revolve around the Sun?

Correct Answer: A) 365 days.

17. ..... published the Sun-centered model of the solar system in 1543.

Correct Answer: C) Copernicus.

18. A force of attraction between any two objects is called .....

Correct Answer: C) Gravity.

19. What is one fact about Jupiter?

Correct Answer: A) It has at least 63 moons.

20. The existence of the force of gravity explains why the Moon

Correct Answer: B) Orbits around Earth.