Space Science Unit Test

1) Which of these planets has the coldest surface temperature?

• Earth

• jupiter

• mars

• neptune

planets close to the sun are

• Small and rocky

• large and rocky

• small and gaseous

• large and gaseous

Which of these is NOT large and gaseous?

• Jupiter

• mercury

• saturn

• Uranus

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The raw materials that formed the solar system were MOST LIKELY

• hydrogen gas and dust

• asteroids and water vapor

• oxygen gas and ice particles

• gamma radiation and ice particles

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5) According to the solar nebular theory, the dust and gas that formed the solar system first existed as a

• Planet

• galaxy

• nebula

• black hole

Solar nebular theory explains the formation of a

• galaxy

• nebula

• universe

• solar system

7) Almost everything in the universe orbits around a central object. The planets orbit the sun and moons orbit planets. The force MOST responsible for these orbits is

• gravity

• inertia

• strong force

• electromagnetic

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8) What causes the Moon to orbit around the Earth?

• the moon's mass

• earth's gravity

• the sun's gravity

• the vacuum of space

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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune: what is one reason why life probably does not exist on these four planets?

• they have no gravity

• they are the gas planets

• they are the giant planets

• they are the rocky planets

Steve is whirling a rubber cork, tied with a string to his finger, over his head as shown in the figure.

The motion of the cork is similar to the motion of a planet in the Solar System around the Sun.

Which force in the Solar System is similar to the tension in the string?

• nuclear force

• magnetic force

• gravitational force

• electrostatic force

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