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WorksheetsSolar System
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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Class
Date
1.
a small rocky body orbiting the sun. Large numbers of these, ranging in size from nearly 600 miles (1,000 km) across (Ceres) to dust particles, are found (as the asteroid belt ) especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, though some have more eccentric orbits, and a few pass close to the earth or enter the atmosphere as meteors.
a)
Rock
b)
Sun
c)
Asteroid
d)
Duck
2.
Circumstellar disc in the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets.
a)
Asteroid Belt
b)
Asteroid
c)
Space
d)
Sun
3.
A region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape.
a)
Black Hole
b)
Solar System
c)
Stars
d)
Planets
4.
Icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to evolve gasses, a process called outgassing. This produces a visible atmosphere or coma, and sometimes also a tail.
a)
Comet
b)
Black Hole
c)
Solar System
d)
Stars
5.
A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure.
a)
Constellation
b)
Asteroid
c)
Space
d)
Fly
6.
A system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction.
a)
Galaxy
b)
Milky Way
c)
Earth
d)
Mr.B
7.
Earth's gravity is what keeps you on the ground and what causes objects to fall.
a)
Gravitational pull
b)
Galaxy
c)
Black Hole
d)
Space
8.
A long distance or great amount.
a)
Light Year
b)
Space
c)
Galaxy
d)
Light
9.
Phase of the moon is the shape of the illuminated (sunlit) portion of the Moon as seen by an observer on Earth.
a)
Lunar Phases
b)
New Moon
c)
Full Moon
d)
Waxing Crescent
10.
A small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere, becoming incandescent as a result of friction and appearing as a streak of light.
a)
Meteor
b)
Asteroid
c)
Comet
d)
Black Hole
11.
A meteor that survives its passage through the earth's atmosphere such that part of it strikes the ground. More than 90 percent of meteorites are of rock, while the remainder consist wholly or partly of iron and nickel.
a)
Meteorite
b)
Meteor
c)
Comet
d)
New Moon
12.
The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
a)
Orbit
b)
Rotation
c)
Galaxy
d)
Sun
13.
A forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
a)
Revolution
b)
Rotation
c)
Orbit
d)
Earth
14.
The action of rotating around an axis or center.
a)
Rotation
b)
Orbit
c)
Galaxy
d)
Black Hole
15.
An apparatus for producing and recording spectra for examination.
a)
Spectroscope
b)
Graph
c)
Comet
d)
Obit
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