Solar system quiz

Mercury is the ______________ planet

• swiftest
• coldest
• biggest
• hottest

Venus is located

• Between the Sun and Mercury
• Between Mercury and Earth
• Between Mars and Jupiter
• Between Earth and Mars

What makes life on earth possible?

• Ice and gravity
• gravity and heat
• clouds and air
• water and air

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The sun is

• located at the center of the solar system
• considered a gas gaint
• orbiting the earth
• not a star

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Btetween Mars and Jupiter, there is an ______________

• Meteor shower
• shooting stars
• asteroid belt
• nothing

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A__________ is made of dust and ice

• meteor
• asteroid
• meteorite
• Comet

Gravitational force depends on _____________.

• a. The distance between the objects
• b. The mass of the objects
• c. The volume of the objects
• d. Both a and b

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Which of the following roles does gravity play in our solar system?

• It keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun
• It keeps the Moon in orbit around the Earth
• It causes things to fall to the ground
• All of the above

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The gravitational pull from the __________ is keeping all the planets in our solar system in orbits around it.

• asteroid belt
• sun
• jupiter
• earth

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There is no gravitational pull between the Earth and the Moon.

• True
• False

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