Chapter 28 Test Review - Earth and Space Science

The ___ of a planet is its apparent backwards movement as seen from Earth’s sky.

• epicycle

• retrograde motion

• perihelion

• eccentricity

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What is the Sun-centered model of our solar system called?

• epicycle

• geocentric

• heliocentric

• eccentric

Why is Venus the hottest planet, even though it is not the closest to the Sun?

• its greenhouse effect

• its high albedo

• its high atmospheric pressure

• its sulfuric acid rain

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Mercury’s extremely slow spin causes only ___ days to pass in ___ of Mercury’s years.

• three, two

• one, two hundred

• one hundred, one

• twenty-four, one

What is the composition of Saturn’s atmosphere?

• hydrogen and helium

• hydrogen, helium, and ammonia ice

• sulfuric acid and hydrogen

• helium and oxygen

Our solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago when

• a large planet broke into many pieces.

• a cloud of interstellar dust and gas began to condense.

• stars collided with one another.

• Jupiter formed as the largest planet.

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Which of the inner planets has the highest average surface temperature?

• Mercury

• Venus

• Earth

• Mars

Nearly 5 billion years ago, a rotating mass of dust and gas called the solar nebula gave rise to

• the Sun and several other stars

• our solar system

• the Milky Way galaxy

• all solar systems

The bright celestial object that is often called both the morning star and the evening star is ___.

• Jupiter

• the Andromeda galaxy

• a large comet

• Venus

Approximately how old is our solar system?

• 15 million years

• 250 million years

• 4.6 billion years

• 15 billion years

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