Science 101 Solar System National Geographic

What is it?

• The Solar System

• Earth

• The Asteroid Belt

• The Milk Way Galaxy

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What is the Sun?

• A ball of fire

• A planet

• A star

• An Asteroid

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What percentage of stars host planets?

• 50%

• 15%

• 5%

• 10%

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What is at the center of our solar system?

• The Asteroid Belt

• The Earth

• The Sun

• The Moon

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How many planets are there in our Solar System?

• There are nine planets

• There are four planets

• There are eight planets

• There are ten planets

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Should Pluto be a planet again?

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What are the two categories of planets?

• Terrestrial and Gas

• Terrestrial and Jovian

• Terrestrial and Rocky

• Terrestrial and Liquid

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What are the four TERRESTRIAL planets?

• Mercury, Venus, Earth and Jupiter

• Mercury, Venus, Earth and Saturn

• Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

• Mercury, Venus, Earth and Pluto

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What are their characteristics?

• Thye are made of rock material and their surfaces are solid

• They have very few Moons and are relative small

• They don't have rings

• They are made of rock material, their surfaces are solid, they have some Moons and they have rings

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According to the video, Mercury is:

• The closest planet to Sun

• The smallest and it has the shortest orbit

• The hottest planet

• The planet we should live

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Which planet is the hottest?

• Mercury

• Venus

• Jupiter

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