Planets and Stars Review

Which answer correctly orders the planets from the sun?

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

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

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

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

Which planets are the gas giants?

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Saturn

• Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Earth

What are the four inner planets?

• Earth, Uranus, Mercury, Venus

• Mercury Venus Earth Saturn

• Mars, Earth , Mercury, Venus

• Mars, Earth, Neptune, Mercury

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What are the outer planets?

• Jupiter, Saturn, Earth, Neptune

• Saturn, Neptune, Mars, Uranus

• Uranus, Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What is at the center of our solar system?

• asteroid belt

• Earth

• sun

• moon

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

A constellation is a group of visible ____ that form a pattern when viewed from Earth.  

• planets
• stars
• patterns
• creatures

As the earth rotates on its axis, the constellations and stars in them appear to _________.  

• move across the sky
• stand still in the sky
• move around each other
• rotate

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Constellations may be only visible during certain seasons due to the Earth’s orbit around the____.  

• Earth
• Mars
• Planets
• sun

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What are the three important constellations?
 

• Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Orion  
• Ursa Major, Big Dipper, Orion  
• Ursa big, Ursa small, Orion 
• Polaris, Ursa Minor, Orion  

Which constellation is best known because it contains the “big dipper,” which looks like a ladle.

• Ursa Major
• Ursa Minor
• Orion
• Polaris