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Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 24mins
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Class
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1.
If an object in space orbits around the sun, is larger than Earth, cold, and has an atmosphere of gas, what is it?
a)
a star
b)
a planet
c)
a comet
d)
an asteroid
2.
What is the Milky Way?
a)
a candy bar
b)
a star
c)
a solar system
d)
a galaxy
3.
What is a planet?
a)
a rock
b)
object that rotates with moons
c)
object that revolves around a star in its own orbit
d)
object that is gas and bright
4.
What planets are the inner planets?
a)
Earth, Mars, Mercury, Venus
b)
Jupiter, Earth, Mars, Venus
c)
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
d)
Earth, Mars, Neptune, Pluto
5.
What are the outer planets?
a)
Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto
b)
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
c)
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Earth
d)
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
6.
What are the outer planets made of?
a)
rock
b)
rock, with gaseous atmospheres
c)
hydrogen and helium gases
d)
water
7.
What are asteroids made of?
a)
rock
b)
rock and ice
c)
ice
d)
gas
8.
What are comets made of?
a)
ice
b)
rock and ice
c)
rock
d)
water
9.
Describe the differences of inner and outer planets.
a)
Inner planets are small rocky planets, outer planets are large and gaseous
b)
Inner planets are large and gaseous, and outer planets are small hot planets
c)
Inner planets are rocky and large, outer planets are small and rocky
d)
Inner planets are small gaseous planets, outer planets are large rocky planets.
10.
Gas, dust, billions of stars and planets describes what space entity?
a)
Solar System
b)
Galaxy
c)
Moon
d)
Sun
11.
Why does it seem like the North Star never moves but the other stars do?
a)
Because the stars rotate but not the North Star.
b)
No stars move, it is all how the Earth rotates.
c)
Earth revolves around the sun so each night there are different stars.
d)
The stars are moving around Earth, but not the North Star.
12.
If it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, what season is it in the Southern Hemisphere?
a)
Winter
b)
Spring
c)
Summer
d)
Fall
13.
Which is the best explanation for why Northern Hemisphere experiences winter?
a)
The Earth is farther from the Sun.
b)
The Earth is closer to the Sun.
c)
The Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun.
d)
The Northern Hemisphere gets indirect sunlight and titled away from the Sun.
14.
Which letter best represents Summer in the Northern Hemisphere?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
15.
How long does it take the Earth to make one REVOLUTION around the Sun?
a)
12 hours
b)
24 hours
c)
365 days
d)
29.5 days
16.
The Earth's _______ is an imaginary line that goes from the North Pole to the South Pole.
a)
vernal equinox
b)
axis
c)
solar eclipse
d)
solar flare
17.
Earth's rotation on its axis is what causes ______________________________.
a)
seasons
b)
moon phases
c)
day and night
d)
weather
18.
Earth's ________ on its axis causes day and night.
a)
rotation
b)
revolution
c)
phase
d)
comet
19.
The phases of the moon are caused by
a)
The Earth's shadow on the moon
b)
The moon is a white dwarf
c)
The amount of sunlight being reflected by the moon towards Earth
d)
The amount of light emitted by the moon towards Earth
20.
As the moon's shape appears to get smaller, we say that the moon is _.
a)
Swelling
b)
Waxing
c)
Waning
d)
Shrinking
21.
What moon phase is at position 5?
a)
waxing crescent
b)
waxing gibbous
c)
full moon
d)
waning crescent
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