The Solar System

Who first proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system?

• Alfred Wegener

• Albert Einstein

• Nicolaus Copernicus

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The Great Red Spot is a _______.

• pizza place in Irwin

• giant storm on Jupiter

• dance club in Las Vegas

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The largest object in the solar system is _________.

• Jupiter

• the Sun

• Ganymede

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The solar system is believed to be about _________ years old.

• 65 milion

• 4.6 billion

• 13 billion

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The Viking space probes studied _____.

• Mars

• Venus

• Mercury

The planet with the shortest period of revolution is _______.

• Mercury

• Neptune

• Mars

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The largest natural satellite in our solar system is _______.

• Earth's Moon

• Jupiter's Ganymede

• Neptune's Triton

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The Asteroid Belt is located between the orbits of ________.

• Earth and Mars

• Uranus and Neptune

• Mars and Jupiter

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The planet with an atmosphere made mostly of nitrogen is _______.

• Earth

• Neptune

• Jupiter

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Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system, is located on ______.

• Earth

• Venus

• Mars