Solar System Quiz

What is the center of the Solar System?

• the Sun

• The Earth

• The Oort Cloud

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Which of the following is NOT a terrestrial planet?

• Neptune

• Earth

• Mercury

Short period comets are thought to originate in the 

• Oort Could

• Kuiper Belt

• Asteroid Belt

The largest moon in the solar system orbits which planet?

• Earth

• Saturn

• Jupiter

The most distant area of the solar system from the Sun is called the 

• Kuiper belt

• Oort Cloud

• Asteroid Belt

The planet with the hottest surface temperature in the solar system is 

• Earth

• Venus

• Mercury

Pluto is now classified as a 

• Terrestrial Planet

• Dwarf Planet

• Moon of Neptune

Mars is very cold even though it is close to the Sun, this is because 

• the atmosphere is thin

• the Sun is not very hot

• the rocks on Mars don't collect heat

The largest planet in the solar system is 

• Neptune

• Saturn

• Jupiter

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The most accepted hypothesis for the formation of Earth's moon is 

• the capture hypothesis

• the great impact hypothesis

• the dual formation hypothesis