SPACE

What do the fascinating objects in space do?

• They spin in outer space.
• They stay in the same place all the time.
• They move towards their suns.
• They float in outer space.

Why is our system called a solar system?

• Everything is surrounded by the sun.
• Everything is centered around the sun.
• Everything moves away from the sun.
• Everything moves towards the sun.

What is the sun?

• A big ball of fire.
• A star.
• A very big planet.
• An asteroid.

The sun looks small to us because it is

• 93 million miles away from the Moon

• 93 million miles away from the Earth

• 93 million miles away from other planets

• 93 million miles away from the first planet

The sun is ........ times wider than the Earth.

• less than a 100
• about a 100
• more than a 100
• exactly a 100

The sun is the biggest object in the solar system because

• it is bigger than Jupiter
• it is bigger than  at least 4 other planets.
• it is bigger than all the planets together.
• it is bigger than Saturn.

What holds the solar system together?

• Gravity.
• Magnetism.
• Our galaxy.
• The sun.

Without the sun there would be no

• oxygen
• carbohydrates
• light
• water

Without the heat from the sun 

• plants would grow more slowly
• plants would not grow
• plants would grow in the greenhouses
• plants would grow under the surface

The sun is a ball of gases:

• hydrogen and oxygen
• oxygen and carbon dyoxide
• helium and hydrogen
• jelium and oxygen