Intro to the Solar System Quiz

Which of the following does NOT describe the first four planets in our solar system?

• Rocky surface

• Jovian planets

• Smaller in size

• Terrestrial Planets

What is the correct order of the planets in our system?

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

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

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

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

Which two planets are known as the Ice Giants?

• Jupiter and Saturn

• Saturn and Uranus

• Jupiter and Uranus

• Uranus and Neptune

What is the difference between a meteor and a meteorite?

• A meteor describes a rock floating through space, while a meteorite describes a rock that hits the earth

• A meteor describes a rock that hits the earth, while a meteorite describes a rock that hits the earth

• A meteor is a rock the hits the earth, and a meteorite is a small mass of dust and ice that orbits the sun

• There is no difference

Where is the Asteroid Belt located in our solar system?

• Between Earth and Mars

• Between Mars and Jupiter

• Between Jupiter and Saturn

• Between Saturn and Uranus

How big is the Sun compared to the rest of the solar system?

• The sun makes up 99% of our Solar system's mass

• The sun is about twice as big as the mass of our planets combined

• The sun is about 75% of our Solar system's mass

• The sun is about half as big as the mass of our planets combined

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What is a satellite?

• a type of telescope that portrays images from space

• a type of asteroid that has escaped the Asteroid Belt.

• a body that revolves around a planet

• anything floating freely through space

Rings that orbit a planet, such as Saturn, are not solid rings but actually made of _____________________.

• smalls rocks, pieces of ice, and dust

• asteroids that fell out of orbit from the Asteroid Belt

• water vapor and clouds

• smalls pieces of ice, carbon dioxide and nitrogen gas

What causes a comet to have a tail?

• the comet is moving so fast that pieces of rock fall off of as it moves

• The ice on the comet slowly vaporizes by heat from the sun

• The comet accumulates ice on the end of it as it travels through space

• the comet is on fire while it travels through space causing a smokey tail to form behind it

Why are the planets further from the sun much bigger than those closer?

• There were more asteroids that collected to form a big solid mass planet

• The gravitational pull from the sun is not as strong

• The temperatures are colder further out, allowing gases to accumulate around the planet's surface

• The rock that formed the beginning of the outer planets were bigger than those of the inner planets

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