Science Olympiad Solar System

What is a dwarf planet?

• Planet related to the Hobbits

• Planet that lacks certain features

• Planet able to break through orbit

• Planet only in the milky way galaxy

The Solar System event has a maximum of how many participants?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

The maximum amount of time given in Solar system event is

• 20 minutes

• 30 minutes

• 40 minutes

• 50 minutes

Asteroid belt is located between

• Earth and Venus

• Neptune and Mars

• Mars and Jupiter

• Jupiter and Uranus

Centaurs are located between

• Neptune and Jupiter

• Mercury and Venus

• Mars and Uranus

• Earth and Mars

Which statement is not one of Kepler's Laws

• The squares of the sidereal periods (of revolution) of the planets are directly proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the Sun.

• All planets move about the Sun in elliptical orbits, having the Sun as one of the foci.

• Energy cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system.

• A radius vector joining any planet to the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal lengths of time.

There are ___ phases of the moon.

• 12

• 8

• 31

• 6