Solar System

What do we call when the Earth spins?

• orbit

• rotation

• revolution

Why do stars look as if they move across the sky?

• The stars are moving with the seasons

• patterns of stars stay the same except they move across the sky.

• Every season has different stars, but the pattern stays the same.

What is a huge system of gas, dust, stars and objects that orbit the sun.

• comet

• asteroid

• galaxy

In the list below, which is an inner planet?

• Saturn

• Neptune

• Jupiter

• Mercury

Which planet below is the largest rocky planet

• Mercury

• Venus

• Earth

• Mars

Which is the correct order of the planets from the Sun.

• Earth, Mars, Venus, Jupiter

• Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Neptune

• Saturn, Pluto, Mercury

14 days after a full moon, what type of moon do we see.

• first quarter

• third quarter

• New moon

How long does it take the moon to orbit Earth.

• 12 days

• 30 days

• 15 days

• 24 days

Which type of moon would I see before a first quarter moon.

• full moon

• new moon

Which object in the solar system is made out of ice.

• comet

• asteroid