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Solar System (duplicate with ALL questions)- To the Moon Quest

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which is the only type of planet that has a solid surface to walk on?

a)

Gas Giants

b)

Ice Giants

c)

Terrestial Planets

2.

A terrestrial planets have few moons.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Terrestrial planets have ring systems.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

What is the smallest planet in our solar system? (It isn't Pluto because Pluto is a dwarf planet.)

a)

Mercury

b)

Venus

c)

Mars

d)

Neptune

5.

What is the hottest planet?

a)

Venus

b)

Mercury

c)

Uranus

d)

Mars

6.

What makes Venus the hottest planet? (TWO answers are correct.)

a)

Carbon Dioxide (traps heat)

b)

Lava Flows

c)

Closer to the sun

7.

Earth is known as the ---------- Planet.

a)

Water

b)

Lava

c)

Soil

d)

Sun

8.

Are there any other planets known to be able to sustain life?

a)

no

b)

yes

9.

Gas Giant and Ice Giant Planets are inner or outer planets?

a)

Outer

b)

Inner

10.

Ice and Gas Giant planets are called...

a)

Jovian Planets

b)

Terrestrial Planets

c)

Inner Planets

11.

Which are the Gas Giant Planets?

a)

Jupiter and Saturn

b)

Mars and Venus

c)

Mercury and Earth

d)

Uranus and Pluto

12.

Which are the Ice Giant Planets?

a)

Uranus and Neptune

b)

Saturn and Jupiter

c)

Mercury and Earth

d)

Mars

13.

All Jovian Planets are the following: (THREE answers are correct.)

a)

Small

b)

Giant

c)

Have ring systems

d)

No ring systems

e)

No solid surface

14.

What is the largest planet in our solar system?

a)

Jupiter

b)

Mars

c)

Neptune

d)

Earth

15.

Uranus is famous for

a)

rotating on it's side

b)

exploding

c)

spinning really fast

d)

aliens

16.

What is the outer most planet in the solar system?

a)

Neptune

b)

Mars

c)

Earth

d)

Mercury

17.

How many miles is the outer most planet from the sun?

a)

2.8 billion miles

b)

1 billion miles

c)

998 billion miles

d)

700,000 billion miles

18.

What orbits the terrestrial planets?

a)

Mercury belt

b)

Asteroid belt

c)

Star belt

19.

What makes up the astroid belt

a)

large planets

b)

dust particles to dwarf planets

c)

only dust particles

d)

sun rays

20.

What orbits the Jovian Planets?

a)

Asteroid Belt (including dust particles)

b)

Kuiper Belt (with dwarf planets including Pluto)

c)

black holes

d)

flying aliens

21.

The Oort Cloud is which of the following? (THREE answers are correct.)

a)

Considered the end of the Solar System

b)

The end of the gravitational incluence from the sun

c)

The beginning of the Solar System

d)

A collection of icy debris

22.

The sun is a

a)

star

b)

planet

c)

comet

d)

asteroid

23.

What is at the center of the solar system?

a)

Sun

b)

Moon

c)

Earth

d)

Neptune

24.

Are terrestrial planets known as the inner or outer planets?

a)

Inner

b)

Outer