Solar System

Which of the following is known as the "red planet"?

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Mercury

• Saturn

It is the largest planet in the solar system?

• Mercury

• Earth

• Jupiter

• Neptune

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Which of the following planets in the solar system can support life?Explain your answer.

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Mercury is the ____planet in the solar system.

What is the term for the path that the Earth takes as it revolves around the Sun?

• Axis

• Orbit

• Cycle

• Rotation

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What are some parts of the Solar System?

• the planets

• the moon(s)

• Comets

• Asteroids

• Meteroids

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How did our Solar System form?

• Through a giant crash of planets

• through a hot, spinning cloud of gases & dust

• through an explosion near the surface of Earth's atmosphere

• none of these reasons

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What is an asteroid?

• a relatively small rocky body that orbits the sun

• a satellite of Earth

• a small, orbitting body made up of dust, ice, and frozen gases

• a streak of light caused by a chunk of matter that enters Earth's atmosphere and gets heated by the air

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Planets do not make their own light, rather they _____________light.

• create

• reflect

• generate

• form

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Its gravity holds the other planets and objects in their position within the Solar System.

• The Moon

• The Sun

• The Asteroid Belt

• The Meteoroids

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