WorksheetsThe Solar System
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 16mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What does the atmosphere on Venus create?
a)
Slow rotation
b)
Cooling effect
c)
Cloud cover
d)
Greenhouse effect
2.
Pieces of rock that strike the surface of a moon or planet.
a)
Meteor showers
b)
Meteorites
c)
Meteors
d)
Meteoroids
3.
Took place in the center of the cloud of dust and gas to create energy that formed the Sun.
a)
Solar wind
b)
Evaporation
c)
Gravity
d)
Nuclear fusion
4.
Most asteroids are located in an area between the orbits of these two planets.
a)
Mars and Jupiter
b)
Mercury and Venus
c)
Jupiter and Saturn
d)
Earth and Mars
5.
What planet is the Great Red Spot located on?
a)
Uranus
b)
Saturn
c)
Neptune
d)
Jupiter
6.
The fourth planet from the Sun.
a)
Jupiter
b)
Mercury
c)
Mars
d)
Venus
7.
The solid, icy part of the comet.
a)
Coma
b)
Tail
c)
Nucleus
8.
Johannes Kepler discovered that the orbits of planets are this shape.
a)
Elliptical
b)
Circular
c)
Parabolic
d)
Spherical
9.
Most of the frozen ice in this part of the comet vaporizes after its many trips around the Sun.
a)
Heart
b)
Nucleus
c)
Tail
d)
Coma
10.
Small pieces of rock that enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up.
a)
Asteroids
b)
Meteors
c)
Meteoroids
d)
Comets
11.
Evidence suggests that these originate in the Oort Cloud located beyond the orbit of Pluto.
a)
Asteroids
b)
Comets
c)
Meteors
d)
Meteoroids
12.
People once believed that all planets and stars orbited around this body.
a)
Earth
b)
Mercury
c)
Mars
d)
Venus
13.
Small pieces of rock moving through space.
a)
Asteroids
b)
Meteoroids
c)
Comets
d)
Meteorites
14.
The eighth planet from the Sun.
a)
Saturn
b)
Pluto
c)
Neptune
d)
Uranus
15.
a)
Solar flare
b)
Sunspot
c)
Prominence
16.
A comet develops a tail for this reason.
a)
The solar wind
b)
The Oort Cloud
c)
Jupiter's gravitational pull
d)
Earth's atmosphere
17.
Bright cloud that forms around solid part of a comet from vaporized gases and released dust.
a)
Nucleus
b)
Coma
c)
Core
d)
Tail
18.
He published the Sun-centered model of the solar system in 1543.
a)
Columbus
b)
Galileo
c)
Kepler
d)
Copernicus
19.
This was left over from the formation of the Sun and formed the planets.
a)
Gravel
b)
Asteroids
c)
Gas, ice, and dust
d)
Solar wind
20.
This causes a comet to develop a coma.
a)
Heat from the Sun
b)
Gravity
c)
The Oort Cloud
d)
Earth's atmosphere
21.
Prominences, flares and sunspots are all caused by this.
a)
Electricity
b)
Earth's orbit around the Sun
c)
Intense magnetic fields
d)
Too much heat
22.
The largest moon in the solar system.
a)
Earth's moon
b)
Io
c)
Ganymede
d)
Titan
23.
Pluto and other icy bodies are located here.
a)
Kuiper Belt
b)
Milky Way
c)
Oort Cloud
d)
Asteroid Belt
24.
a)
Solar flare
b)
Sunspot
c)
Prominence
25.
Only moon the has liquid lakes and rivers flowing across its surface.
a)
Titan
b)
Enceladus
c)
Mimas
d)
Callisto
26.
The layer of the Sun that gives off light.
a)
Core
b)
Chromosphere
c)
Corona
d)
Photosphere
27.
The largest volcano, called Olympus Mons, is on this planet.
a)
Venus
b)
Mars
c)
Earth
d)
Mercury
28.
a)
Solar flare
b)
Sunspot
c)
Prominence
29.
Methane absorbs the red and yellow light, while their clouds reflect the green and blue light.
a)
Neptune and Uranus
b)
Jupiter and Neptune
c)
Jupiter and Uranus
d)
Saturn and Jupiter
30.
Jupiter's closest moon.
a)
Europa
b)
Ganymede
c)
Io
d)
Callisto
31.
Ceres is considered a(n) _______.
a)
asteroid
b)
comet
c)
moon
d)
dwarf planet
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