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Solar System Concepts and Facts

Solar System Concepts and Facts

Assessment

Passage

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Science

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6th Grade

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Practice Problem

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Hard

Created by

Chelsea Lucas

FREE Resource

7 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the primary force that influences the objects in our solar system?

Gravitational pull of the Sun

Magnetic fields

Solar winds

Cosmic rays

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How many planets are there in our solar system?

Eight

Nine

Ten

Seven

3.

FILL IN THE BLANKS QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The next closest star to Earth after our Sun is Proxima (a)   .

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the shape of the paths that planets in our solar system follow around the Sun?

Elliptical or near-circular

Square

Triangular

Hexagonal

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which spacecraft is currently studying Jupiter?

Juno

Voyager

Pioneer

Galileo

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In a scale model of the solar system, if the entire solar system were shrunk down to a meter across, how far would Proxima Centauri be?

Almost 7 kilometers

1 kilometer

10 kilometers

500 meters

7.

OPEN ENDED QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

Use the RACE Strategy to answer the following: According to the passage, why do NASA space missions require many different types of experts to work together, and what are some of the tasks they are responsible for?

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