Our Solar System

Which is the largest object in our solar system?

• Sun

• Jupiter

• Earth

• Pluto

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Which planet is closest to the sun?

• Uranus

• Mercury

• Neptune

• Earth

A ball of ice and dust with a tail of gas and dust pointing away from the sun.

• Asteroid

• Comet

• Moon

• Meteor

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Which planet is the largest in the solar system?

• Earth

• Venus

• Saturn

• Jupiter

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Earth and the other planets closest to the Sun are made mostly of _______

• gas

• metal

• water

• rock

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Which planet is NOT one of the

"Gas Giants"?

• Uranus

• Venus

• Neptune

• Saturn

One full orbit of an object around another object is called a ________.

• axis

• rotation

• revolution

• satellite

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Select the order from smallest to largest.

• Sun, Milky Way, solar system, universe

• Sun, Milky Way, universe, solar system

• Sun, solar system, Milky Way, universe

• Sun, solar system, universe, Milky Way

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Which outer planets have rings?

• Just Saturn

• Saturn and Jupiter

• Jupiter, Neptune, and Saturn

• all 4 of the outer planets

How long ago was our solar system formed?

• 10 million years ago

• 4.6 million years ago

• 4.6 billion years ago

• 2 billion years ago

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