Space

What is the largest star in our solar system?

• Earth

• Mercury

• The Sun

• Venus

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Which country was the first to send a satellite into space?

• United States

• France

• Soviet Union

• Brazil

What happens when a rocket gets too close to the sun?

• The rocket will be sucked into the sun due to gravity

• The rocket will be pushed away from the sun due to gravity

• The sun will be sucked into the rocket due to gravity

• the rocket will continue on its path uneffected

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Choose the correct order from the center of the solar system out

• the sun, the Kuiper belt, the asteroid

• the sun, the asteroid belt, the Kuiper belt

• the Kuiper belt, the sun, the asteroid belt

• the asteroid belt, the Kuiper belt, the sun

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Which of the following is true?

• the inner planets are gassy

• the outer planets are rocky

• the inner planets are rocky

• jupiter is half the size as the sun

Some objects are invisible in space yet astronomers know they exist. What do they base their knowledge on?

• They were once visible and people recorded them.

• Astronomers have a “sixth” sense that helps them know.

• They give off radio or X-rays that we can analyze.

• Telescopes can see things that people cannot.

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How many Earths would fit in the sun?

• 10,000

• 100

• 1,000

• 1,000,000

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Which of these helped the first people land on the moon?

• Sputnik 1

• Apollo 12

• Apollo 11

• Sputnik 2

What is the difference between Asteroids and Meteors?

• Meteors are generally smaller than asteroids

• Meteors and Asteroids are made of ice and rock

• Asteroids are smaller than meteors

• Asteroids and Meteors are the same

Sound travels in space.

• true

• false