Solar System Quiz

Which is the largest object in our solar system?

• Sun
• Jupiter
• Earth
• Pluto

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One of the main differences between the outer and inner planets is __________.

• The inner planets all have water
• the inner planets are much bigger than the outer planets
• the outer planets are gas planets
• the outer planets have rings, and the inner planets don't

The order of the planets is:

• Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune

• Venus, Mars, Earth Jupiter, Neptune, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus Neptune

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus

This cold, blue planet was discovered by a mathematical prediction.

• Neptune

• Jupiter

• Mars

• Venus

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True or False
The planets are all equally distanced from each other.

• True
• False

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What is in-between the inner planets and the outer planets?

• Asteroid belt
• Kuiper belt
• Oort Cloud

• Moon

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What two forces hold the planets in their orbits around the sun?

• gravity and inertia

• speed and inertia

• magnetic field and gravity

• gravity and a string

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What is in the center of the Heliocentric Model?

• Sun
• Comet 
• Jupiter
• Earth

In which type of model are the Sun, other planets, and the Moon in orbit around the Earth?

• heliocentric model
• tetrahedral model
• concentric model
• geocentric model

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When the sunlit part of the moon appears to grow larger to us, we say the moon is....

• Waning

• Waxing

• Getting Bigger

• Getting Smaller

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