Solar System Practice Test

A shooting star is actually a...

• meteor

• meterorite

• comet

• meteoroid

Planets, asteroids, comets and meteoroids all stay in orbit around the sun due to the sun's strong force of _________________

• gravity

• solar power

• motion

• electricity

A meteor that does not burn up in Earth's atmosphere and strikes Earth's surface forming a crater on Earth!

• meteor

• meteriod

• meteorite

Where do comets form/come from?

• Earth's surface

• Earth's atmosphere

• Asteroid Belt

• Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud

The energy in the sun is created by ______.

• Combustion

• Nuclear Fambooboo

• Nuclear Fission

• Nuclear Fusion

The order of the planets...

• Mercury, venus, mars, earth

• venus,mercury,jupitor,mars

• mercury, venus earth, mars

• mercury, venus, earth, mercury

which planet is the smallest?

• mars

• venus

• mercury

• jupiters moons

which planet rotates in the opposite direction?

• neptune

• saturn

• venus

• moon

the coldest inner planet.......

• mars

• earth

• mercury

• 2.5 days

This is the hottest planet.

• Venus

• Mars

• Mercury

• Earth