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Solar System

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which objects are NOT in our Solar system?

a)

Stars

b)

Pluto

c)

the Milky Way

d)

Earth

e)

comets

2.

Which objects are NOT in our Galaxy?

a)

The Sun

b)

Stars

c)

A Black Hole (maybe)

d)

Other Galaxies

e)

Supernovas

3.

Why is Pluto not a planet?

a)

There can only be 8 planets.

b)

The guy who discovered Pluto, it turns out, lied.

c)

Pluto Does not have an orbit mostly cleared from other objects.

d)

It is made of ice

4.

How was the moon formed.

a)

The moon was once an asteroid and it got sucked into orbit around the earth.

b)

The earth got hit buy another object and the debris became the moon.

c)

The same way the Earth was formed

d)

The Moon used to be a planet but it got too close to the earth.

5.

Which is true about gravity?

a)

Gravity does not apply to birds and other objects that fly

b)

birds are too small to be affected by gravity

c)

Birds are too high in the air to be affected by gravity,

d)

A bird creates a force that counteracts the force of gravity making it fly.

6.

Which is true about gravity?

a)

The larger an object is, the more gravity it has

b)

Only objects larger than a moon has gravity

c)

Gravity only pulls on certain objects.

d)

Gravity is the same everywhere

7.

What is the "center of gravity"?

a)

The point at which and object (or group of objects) rotate around

b)

The point at which there is no gravity

c)

the point where light cannot escape

d)

The size of an object that makes it have gravity.

8.

Which picture is the most accurate in terms of size of the planets.

a)
b)
c)
9.

If the sun were the size of a soccer ball, in the middle of Buchser, where would Pluto be?

a)

About 22 feet away

b)

About at the edge of campus

c)

way past the campus

10.

Which of the following is the greatest.

a)

The number of Grains of sand on every beach, desert and playground on the earth

b)

The Number of cells in our body

c)

The Number of Stars on the Universe