Solar System

Which planet is the hottest?

• Earth
• Neptune
• Mercury
• Venus

What is the only planet known to contain life?

• Mars
• Earth
• Neptune
• Uranus

What characteristic is Jupiter known for?

• Rings of ice and dust
• Great Red Spot
• Olympus Mons
• Fire

What is one factor that makes life on Earth possible?

• Water
• High gravity
• Elliptical Orbit
• Hydrogen

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Which planet is now characterized as a dwarf planet?

• Neptune

• Pluto

• Miss Best

• Mercury

Which is the largest object in our solar system?

• Sun
• Jupiter
• Earth
• Pluto

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Which is the fourth planet from the sun?

• Mars
• Saturn
• Earth
• Jupiter

What is the definition of orbit?

• the spinning of the earth on its axis
• when the lit part of the moon increases
• all of the planets, moon, and other space objects going around the sun
• the imaginary line that goes through the north and south poles that the earth spins on

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What describes the earth going around the sun?

• rotation
• revolution

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What is the sun?

• a star
• a comet
• a planet
• an asteroid

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