Solar System

What is a chunk of rock or metal from space that lands on a planet or a moon?

• orbit
• gravity
• meteorite
• astronomer

What is a force or pull that every object has on every other object called?

• orbit
• year
• star
• gravity

What is a star and all the satellites that orbit it called?

• revolve
• solar system
• rotate
• gravity

What is an enormous ball of glowing gas that gives off light and heat called?

• the sun
• a star
• the moon
• meteorite

How long does it take the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun?

• 24 hours
• 365 days
• 24 days
• 180 days

What is the imaginary line that Earth spins, or rotates, around called?

• equator
• axis
• orbit
• gravity

What is the path that a planet takes as it moves around the sun?

• star
• meteorite
• gravity
• orbit

How long does it take the Earth to make one rotation around its axis?

• 365 days
• 24 hours
• 365 hours
• 1 year

Which is not an inner planet?

• Saturn
• Mercury
• Earth
• Mars

Which is not an outer planet?

• Saturn
• Neptune
• Jupiter
• Earth