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Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 17mins
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Class
Date
1.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are called.....?
a)
Jovian Planets
b)
Awesome Sauce Planets
c)
Gas Giants
d)
Inner Planets
2.
Which planet is the hottest?
a)
Earth
b)
Neptune
c)
Mercury
d)
Venus
3.
What do we call Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
a)
Outer Planets
b)
Terrestrial Planets
c)
Inner Planets
d)
Oort Cloud
4.
What characteristic is Jupiter known for?
a)
Rings of ice and dust
b)
Great Red Spot
c)
Olympus Mons
d)
Fire
5.
Which planet is known for having an extreme tilt on its axis causing extreme seasons?
a)
Neptune
b)
Mercury
c)
Venus
d)
Uranus
6.
What characteristics do Earth and Venus share?
a)
They rotate in the same direction
b)
They are both similar size and density
c)
They have the same gases in their atmospheres
d)
They were born at the same time
7.
What is one factor that makes life on Earth possible?
a)
Water
b)
High gravity
c)
Elliptical Orbit
d)
Hydrogen
8.
Which planet is now characterized as a dwarf planet?
a)
Neptune
b)
Pluto
c)
Miss Best
d)
Coca-cola
9.
Which is the largest object in our solar system?
a)
Sun
b)
Jupiter
c)
Earth
d)
Pluto
10.
Which is the fourth planet from the sun?
a)
Mars
b)
Saturn
c)
Earth
d)
Jupiter
11.
Which is the sixth planet from the sun?
a)
Earth
b)
Uranus
c)
Saturn
d)
Neptune
12.
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
13.
What describes the earth going around the sun?
a)
rotation
b)
revolution
14.
What causes day and night?
a)
rotation
b)
revolution
15.
What causes the seasons to change?
a)
rotation
b)
revolution
16.
What is energy created by the sun called?
a)
sun energy
b)
hot energy
c)
solar energy
d)
solar heat
17.
The closer a planet is to the sun...
a)
the faster it travels
b)
the slower it travels
18.
Which statement best describes a galaxy?
a)
a cluster of millions of stars held together by gravity
b)
a star, with planets, moons and other small space bodies revolving around it
c)
all known objects
d)
all of the above
19.
All of the outer planets--
a)
have many moons
b)
are small
c)
have a short orbit around the Sun
d)
are rocky
20.
What is located between the inner and outer planets.
a)
Sun
b)
Asteroid belt
c)
Uranus
d)
Moons
21.
The Sun is at the center of our solar system. All the planets in the solar system orbit around the Sun. Which of the following planets has the longest orbit?
a)
Mercury
b)
Earth
c)
Saturn
d)
Neptune
22.
Which of the following is a common characteristic of outer planets?
a)
have rings
b)
shorter years
c)
terrestrial
d)
less than 5 satellites
23.
All planets have the following characteristics EXCEPT
a)
They rotate
b)
They revolve
c)
They have an atmosphere
d)
They have elliptical orbits
24.
Without the tilt of Earth's axis, we would not have ________
a)
Day and night
b)
Years
c)
Seasons
d)
The moon
25.
What season is the Northern Hemisphere having?
a)
Fall
b)
Winter
c)
Spring
d)
Summer
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