Emily Astronomy Final Exam

The United States was competing with which other country during the space race?

• China

• Canada

• The Soviet Union

• Japan

Watching for solstices and equinoxes helped ancient cultures plan:

• when to start planting and harvesting seasons.

• when to declare war

• when to look for constellations

• when to reset the calendar

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What term names the four inner planets of our solar system?

• sidereal planets

• terrestrial planets

• close planets

• life planets

Which of the inner planets has the hottest average temperature?

• Mercury

• Venus

• Earth

• Mars

Since the Earth orbits the Sun, the Earth is actually a:

• moon

• ring

• nebula

• satellite

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Earth’s _____ is about 365 days.

• period of revolution

• rotation

• eclipse pattern

• seasonal shift

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What do we call the clockwise spin of a planet as seen from about the planet’s north pole?

• revolution

• annual cycle

• retrograde rotation

• orbital process

Which planet is the third closest to the sun?

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Venus

• Earth

Of all the planets in our solar system, which planet, overall, is the MOST like Earth?

• Jupiter

• Mars

• Mercury

• Venus

What is the interior or center part of the Sun called?

• the core

• radiative Zone

• Convection Zone

• Photoshpere