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WorksheetsF2: Solar System
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 17mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which planet is the hottest?
a)
Earth
b)
Neptune
c)
Mercury
d)
Venus
2.
What do we call Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
a)
Outer Planets
b)
Terrestrial Planets
c)
Inner Planets
d)
Oort Cloud
3.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are called.....?
a)
Jovian Planets
b)
Awesome Sauce Planets
c)
Gas Giants
d)
Inner Planets
4.
What is the big bang theory?
a)
A movie
b)
A planet
c)
A theory of how Jupiter will crash into Saturn
d)
A theory of how the Universe began
5.
What is the only planet known to contain life?
a)
Mars
b)
Earth
c)
Neptune
d)
Uranus
6.
What factor determines the color of a star?
a)
Size
b)
Shape
c)
Magnitude
d)
Temperature
7.
What is one factor that makes life on Earth possible?
a)
Water
b)
High gravity
c)
Elliptical Orbit
d)
Hydrogen
8.
Which is the largest object in our solar system?
a)
Sun
b)
Jupiter
c)
Earth
d)
Pluto
9.
Which planet is closest to the sun?
a)
Uranus
b)
Mercury
c)
Neptune
d)
Earth
10.
Which planet is third from the sun?
a)
Mars
b)
Pluto
c)
Venus
d)
Earth
11.
What is the definition of orbit?
a)
the spinning of the earth on its axis
b)
when the lit part of the moon increases
c)
all of the planets, moon, and other space objects going around the sun
d)
the imaginary line that goes through the north and south poles that the earth spins on
12.
Which one takes 24 hours?
a)
rotation
b)
revolution
13.
This planet has rings.
a)
SATURN
b)
MERCURY
c)
MARS
d)
VENUS
14.
The biggest planet is...
a)
JUPITER
b)
EARTH
c)
MARS
d)
VENUS
15.
This planet is also called "The Red Planet"
a)
JUPITER
b)
EARTH
c)
MARS
d)
VENUS
16.
The name of our galaxy is...
a)
The Farm
b)
Galaxy War
c)
The Universe
d)
Milky Way
17.
How many planets does the solar system have?
a)
1
b)
9
c)
5
d)
8
18.
Earth and the other planets closest to the Sun are made mostly of _______
a)
gas
b)
metal
c)
water
d)
rock
19.
The moon is a natural ______ of Earth.
a)
comet
b)
axis
c)
satellite
d)
space probe
20.
How is the Sun similar to the stars that can be seen at night?
a)
The Sun makes light energy
b)
The Sun takes light energy from space.
c)
The Sun warms the Earth with its light
21.
Where is the ASTEROID BELT located?
a)
Between Jupiter and Saturn
b)
Between Mars and Jupiter
c)
Between Earth and Mars
d)
Between Neptune and Uranus
22.
How many days does it take the Earth to revolve around the Sun?
a)
30 days
b)
365 days
c)
100 days
d)
40 days
23.
Which object in the sky is called "space rocks"?
a)
asteroids
b)
meteors
c)
comets
24.
The sun is made of?
a)
Nitrogen and helium and other gases
b)
Air
c)
Fire
d)
Just Nitrogen
25.
A light year is the
a)
distance that light travels in one year
b)
Speed at which light travels
26.
The average distance between the earth and the sun is the
a)
astronomical unit
b)
Light year
27.
What do we use astronomical units to measure?
a)
distances in our solar system
b)
How far our solar system is from others in our galaxy.
c)
The distances between galaxies.
d)
The distance from one side of the universe to the other.
28.
Rank the terms in size from smallest to largest.
a)
Star, galaxy, universe, moon, planet, solar system
b)
planet, moon, galaxy, universe, solar system, star
c)
moon, planet, star, solar system, galaxy, universe
d)
moon, planet, star, galaxy, solar system, universe
29.
A nebula is
a)
a cluster of stars
b)
a cluster of planets
c)
a solar system
d)
a cloud of dust and gas
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