GRADE 6-A

What planet is also called'' The Red Planet''?

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Earth

• Mercury

What do you call the first planet in the Solar System?

• Earth

• Venus

• Mars

• Mercury

What holds the planets in their orbit around the sun?

• air currents

• gravity

• speed

• strings

What is the most distant planet in the Solar System?

• Neptune

• Mars

• Saturn

• Jupiter

How many moons does the Earth have?

• 7

• 1

• 3

• 2

Arrange the letters.

THERA

It is called the Luckiest planet in the Solar System?

Between the orbits of which two planets is the asteroid belt located?

• Earth and Mars

• Mars and Jupiter

• Jupiter and Saturn

• Saturn and Uranus

Which is a small, irregularly shaped body made of rock or organic material that orbits the sun?

• comet

• meteor

• asteroid

• meteorite

People sometimes talk about seeing shooting stars. What do they actually see?

• a meteoroid traveling through space

• a star that is moving through the galaxy

• meteoroid that burns up in Earth’s atmosphere

• a comet that has come close enough to to be seen