Our Solar System

All of the planets in the solar system orbit around

• Earth

• Sun

• Jupiter

• The Milky Way

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The hottest planet in our solar system is

• Mercury

• Venus

• Earth

• Mars

If a new planet was discovered that was small, rocky, and dense, it would be the most like

• Mercury

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Neptune

The asteroid belt separates the terrestrial planets and the gas giants, so it must be in between

• Earth and Mars

• Jupiter and Saturn

• Mars and Jupiter

• Mercury and Venus

The planets follow circular paths around the sun called

• orbits

• nebulae

• galaxies

• spins

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The planets get colder as you move further from the sun, so the coldest planet must be

• Mars

• Neptune

• Uranus

• Saturn

The largest planet in our solar system is

• Earth

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Mars

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In relationship to the Universe, our solar system is

• older

• younger

• about the same age

The sun is about ________ times wider in diameter than the Earth

• 2

• 5

• 10

• 100

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As the orbit radius increases, the orbit period

• increases

• decreases

• stays the same

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