Solar System Quizz

A short lived streak of light that is sometimes called a shooting star.

• meteor
• planet
• asteroid
• comet

Astronomers developed solar system based on what they knew.

• Moons, and planets

• Ancient Models of the solar system

• Observations of celestial bodies and their movements.
• Early Models of the solar system

This model of the universe , the planets, sun, moons, and stars all revolved around the Earth at the center.

• Aristotle's model

• Copernico's model

• Ptolemaic model
• Galileo's model

Is the apparent shift in position of an object when it is viewed from different points.

• Parallax
• Displacement
• Distortion
• Refraction

An instrument that collects and concentrates light from distant objects to make the objects appear larger or brighter.

• magnifying glass

• microscope
• binoculars
• telescope

Small objects from the solar system:

• planets
• asteroids, moons, comets, meteoroids, dwarf planets

• galaxies
• nebulae

A relatively rocky body that travels trough space

• Galaxy
• Meteoroid
• Comet
• Asteroid

A small rocky body object that orbits the sun and most of them are located in a band between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

• Asteroid
• Galaxy
• Comet
• Meteoroid

A small body of ice rock and cosmic dust thst follows an elliptical orbit around the sun that gives gas and dust in the form as it passes close to the sun.

• asteroid

• Meteor
• comet

• Galaxy

A celestial body that orbits the sun , it is around because of its own gravity but it has not clear orbital path

• Asteroid
• Dwarf Planet

• Planet

• Moon