Planets Quiz Review

What planet is closest to the sun?

• Mars

• Earth

• Venus

• Mercury

What are the four inner planets?

• Earth, Uranus, Mercury, Venus

• Mercury Venus Earth Saturn

• Mars, Earth , Mercury, Venus

• Mars, Earth, Neptune, Mercury

Which planet is farthest from the sun?

• Neptune

• Jupiter

• Mercury

• Uranus

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Which planets are made of solid surfaces and rocky cores?

• terrestrial/Inner planet

• gas giants

• outer planets

• Nebula cores

The inner planets share 2 qualities or characteristics

• Humans can live on them, they all have water

• They are rocky, and humans can find food on them

• They are rocky and close to the Sun

• They are close to the Sun, and humans can live on them

What are the 2 characteristics of the 4 outer planets.

• They are rocky and small in size

• Larger planets and made of gas

• Closer to the Sun and made of gas

• Farther from the Sun and made of gas

Daniel, Emma, and Sophia are on a space adventure! They come across a planet known as the "red planet". Can you help them identify which planet it is?

• Venus

• Mercury

• Earth

• Mars

Imagine this, Olivia, James, and Jackson! You're on a spaceship, zooming through the solar system. You come across the sixth planet from the sun. It's so light, it could float in water! Can you guess which planet it is?

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Uranus

• Neptune

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Arjun, Ethan, and Aiden are on a space adventure and they come across a bar graph that compares the orbital speeds of the planets. They are trying to draw conclusions from the graph. Can you help them figure out which of these conclusions can definitely be drawn from the graph?

• The planet's rotation speed increases with increasing distance from the Sun.

• The mass of the planets increases with increasing distance from the Sun.

• The gravitational pull of the Sun decreases with increasing distance from the Sun.

• The orbital periods of the planets increase with increasing distance from the Sun.

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Imagine Aria, Henry, and Olivia are on a spaceship exploring the solar system. They start wondering, why do planets like Earth orbit the sun and not the other way around? What could be the reason?

• The sun has a greater mass than the planets

• The sun is the center of the universe

• The planets have a smaller diameter than the sun

• The sun is the center of the solar system

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