Quiz about Solar System (Grade 5)

Question 1

What is a PLANET?

Accepted Answer

A large object in space that orbits a star, such as the sun.

Answer

A small plan that is made ahead of time

Answer

An object in space

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A natural satellite that orbits a planet

Question 2

What is a MOON?

Accepted Answer

A natural satellite that orbits a planet

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Something you see in the night sky

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Something in space that is made of cheese

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a large object in space that orbits a star

Question 3

What is a GALAXY?

Accepted Answer

A group of billions of stars

Answer

The speed of the internet

Answer

A large object in space that orbits a planet

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How the heat of the sun is measured

Question 4

What is the FASTEST moving planet?

Accepted Answer

Mercury

Answer

Earth

Answer

Saturn

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Venus

Question 5

What is the HOTTEST planet?

Accepted Answer

Venus

Answer

Earth

Answer

Mercury

Answer

Mars

Question 6

What is the LARGEST planet?

Accepted Answer

Jupiter

Answer

The Sun

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Neptune

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Venus

Question 7

Which planet has liquid water and supports life?

Accepted Answer

Earth

Answer

Mars

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Saturn

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Uranus

Question 8

Which planet ROTATES in the OPPOSITE direction of all the other planets?

Accepted Answer

Venus

Answer

Neptune

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Mars

Answer

Jupiter

Question 9

Which planet is the 6th planet from the sun?

Accepted Answer

Saturn

Answer

Jupiter

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Mars

Answer

Neptune

Question 10

Which planet rotates on its side?

Accepted Answer

Uranus

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Neptune

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Mars

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Venus

Question 11

Where is the ASTEROID BELT located?

Accepted Answer

Between Mars and Jupiter

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Between Jupiter and Saturn

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Between Earth and Mars

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Between Neptune and Uranus

Question 12

The Sun is made of mostly two gases, and they are....

Accepted Answer

Hydrogen and Helium

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Helium and Nitrogen

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Hydrogen and Oxygen

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Nitrogen and Oxygen

Question 13

What is a METEOR?

Accepted Answer

The flash of light made by an object burning up in Earth's atmosphere (A "shooting star")

Answer

A rock floating around in space

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A vegetarian meat substitute that tastes like beef

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A rock found on the beach that came from space

Question 14

Which answer choice has the planets placed IN ORDER?

Accepted Answer

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Answer

Mars, Venus, Mercury, Earth, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus Neptune

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Mercury, Earth, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus Neptune

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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus Neptune

Question 15

What GALAXY do we live in?

Accepted Answer

Milky Way

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Chicago

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Barred Spiral

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Snickers

Question 16

The center of our Solar System

Accepted Answer

Sun

Answer

the Milky Way

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Earth

Answer

Jupiter

Question 17

_________ is the fifth and largest planet in the solar system.

Accepted Answer

Jupiter

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Mars

Answer

Saturn

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Uranus

Question 18

What planet is letter D in the diagram?

Accepted Answer

Earth

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Saturn

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Mars

Answer

Venus

Question 19

Every object revolves around the Sun in a path called a(n)?

Accepted Answer

Orbit

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Revolution

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Eclipse

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Rotation

Question 20

The sun provides three main things?

Accepted Answer

Warmth, light and gravity

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Warmth, water and methane

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Warmth, light and helium

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Warmth, gravity and hydrogen

Question 21

The yellow dwarf star in our solar system?

Accepted Answer

Sun

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Venus

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Saturn

Answer

Neptune

Question 22

This is the windiest planet and is made of icy material.

Accepted Answer

Neptune

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Uranus

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Venus

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Jupiter

Question 23

This is a swirling planet of gases and liquids and has rings made of ice and dust?

Accepted Answer

Saturn

Answer

Jupiter

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Neptune

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Uranus

Question 24

List the four inner planets in order from the sun.

Accepted Answer

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

Answer

Mars, Mercury, Venus and Earth

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Mercury, Earth, Venus and Mars

Answer

Mars, Mercury, Venus and Earth

Question 25

Which planet has only one moon?

Accepted Answer

Earth

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Venus

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Mercury

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Mars

Question 26

What is a STAR?

Accepted Answer

Glowing ball of hot gas that makes its own energy and light

Answer

A twinkle, like a diamond, in the night sky

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A ball of fire

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A large spherical object in space

Question 27

What are the terrestrial planets?

Accepted Answer

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

Answer

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

Answer

Earth, Jupiter, Mars and Neptune

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Mercury, Venus, Asteroid and Mars

Question 28

What planet is letter H and rotates on its side?

Accepted Answer

Uranus

Answer

Venus

Answer

Neptune

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Mars

Question 29

What Earth does every 24 hours on its axis?

Accepted Answer

Rotate

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Revolution

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Orbit

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Change Season

Question 30

A simple planet planet that has no moons or rings and is marked by craters.

Accepted Answer

Mercury

Answer

Mars

Answer

Pluto

Answer

Venus

Question 31

Earth's sister planet that holds the record for the hottest planet

Accepted Answer

Venus

Answer

Jupiter

Answer

Mars

Answer

Mercury

Question 32

The soil of this planet is reddish in color because it contains lots of iron. The dirt rusts.

Accepted Answer

Mars

Answer

Mercury

Answer

Jupiter

Answer

Venus

Question 33

The two ice giants are...

Accepted Answer

Uranus and Neptune

Answer

Saturn and Uranus

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Uranus and Pluto

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Neptune and Pluto

Question 34

This planet doesn't have a solid surface and has a great red spot that is a hurricane.

Accepted Answer

Jupiter

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Uranus

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Neptune

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Saturn

Question 35

This planet's atmosphere is made of methane which gives it a blue color. It also rotates on its side and backwards,

Accepted Answer

Uranus

Answer

Venus

Answer

Neptune

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Mars

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