Unit 1-Solar System Test-Moore-2024-2025

What is the correct order of the planets in the Solar System, starting closest to the Sun?

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

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

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

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What do Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars all have in common?

• They are all very cold planets.

• They are considered terrestrial planets, that is rocky or have metals with hard surface.

• They are about the same size.

• They are considered gas giants

Which planet is the largest planet in the solar system and is the fifth planet?

• the sun

• Uranus

• Jupiter

• Earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

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-ESS1-1

A force of attraction between any two objects is called _____________.

• static electricity 
• rotation
• gravity
• orbit

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

the closest planet to the Sun, very cold on one side and very hot on the other, smallest planet, and no moons. This is the smallest planet in our solar system

• Moon

• Meteor

• Uranus

• Mercury

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

the 3rd planet from the Sun. Has one moon, orbits the sun in 365 days and one rotation in 24 hours, and life exists on Planet Earth.

• Earth

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

• Meteorite

• Meteor

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Since 2006, no longer termed a planet, but now called "Dwarf Planet".

• Neptune

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

• Saturn

• Pluto

Material from outer space that burns up as it enters Earth's atmosphere.

• Mars

• Meteor

• Neptune

• Asteroid

A meteoroid that reaches the Earth's surface without burning up completely

• Meteorite

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

• Moon

• Nebula