WorksheetsScience Quarter 2
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
A star and all the objects that travel around it:
solar system
axis
satellite
comet
The imaginary line around which a planet rotates:
gravity
axis
day
crater
A bowl-shaped hole formed when a meteor crashes:
axis
gravity
day
crater
Time it takes for a planet to rotate once:
atmosphere
orbit
day
revolve
The force that keeps each planet in its path around the sun:
gravity
resistance
atmosphere
star
All of the gases around a planet:
orbit
water
atmosphere
crater
Object that travels around another object in space:
moon
satellite
crater
comet
The path a planet takes as it revolves around the sun:
axis
crater
day
orbit
A huge ball of glowing gas that gives off light and heat:
meteor
star
comet
satellite
The time it takes for a planet to complete one revolution around the sun:
day
orbit
year
satellite
Frozen chunks of ice, dust, and gas that revolve around the sun:
comet
planet
star
satellite
A solar system is
a planet and all the objects that travel around it
eight planets and their moons
a star and all the objects that travel around it
planets, moons, comets, and asteroids
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are known as the _____.
Rocky Planets
Gas giants
Inner planets
Red giants
The inner planets are mostly _______.
Made of gases, with rings and many moons.
Hard and rocky, with rings and no atmosphere
Hard and rocky, with craters and few moons
Made of gases, with no atmosphere
Earth and day and night because _______.
it revolves around the Sun.
its orbit is an ellipse.
its axis is tilted.
it rotates on its axis.
We see the Moon's phases because _______.
we see different amounts of the Moon's lighted surface.
the moon changes in shape and size
the amount of the Moon that gets lighted by the Sun changes.
The Moon orbits the Sun and is sometimes behind it.
A year on another planet may be longer than a year on Earth because _______.
the planet is bigger than Earth.
the planet is closer to the Sun than Earth.
the planet rotates more slowly than Earth.
the planet has a bigger orbit than Earth.
Earth has seasons because _______.
it has a perihelion and aphelion.
it has a tilted axis and it revolves around the Sun.
it rotates in a clockwise direction.
it has water.
What is the scientific name for a "shooting star"?
asteroid
comet
meteor
constellation
Which answer lists the planets in order outward from the sun:
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Venus, Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto
