Topic 1 - Solar System Review

What planet is closest to the sun?

• Neptune

• Mercury

• Mars

• Venus

Which is the farthest planet from the sun?

• Uranus

• Saturn

• Jupiter

• Neptune

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Which of the following lists the correct order of the planets from the sun?

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

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

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

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What is the Sun?

• It is a satellite
• It is a Star
• It is a comet
• It is a planet

The four inner planets are rocky and small. Which description best fits the next four outer planets?

• They are also rocky and small.

• They are very large and has no moons

• They are small and made of ice.

• They are very large, made of gases with no solid surface

What is the object that all planets in our solar system orbit?

• The moon

• The sun

• The Milky Way

• Mercury

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Which planet is know as the red planet?

• Earth

• Mars

• Venus

• Mercury

__________holds all of the planets in orbit around the sun.

• Force
• Motion
• Weight
• Gravity

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Spinning of the Earth on its axis is called...

• rotation
• revolution
• orbit
• double axis

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Day and night is caused by the _____________ of earth on its axis.

• revolution
• orbit
• rotation
• space