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WorksheetsEarth and the Solar System Quiz
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 14mins
Who designed huge instruments with which he could take measurements of the planets and the stars?
Brahe
Ptolemy
Keplar
Copernicus
Who was the first to describe our solar system as all other objects orbiting the Earth?
Galileo
Aristotle
Keplar
Copernicus
Who proposed the path that the planets took around the sun was an ellipse rather than a perfect circle?
Alfred Wegener
Copernicus
Brahe
Keplar
Who utilized advanced mathematics to help explain how our solar system moved around the sun?
Brahe
Aristotle
Copernicus
Keplar
Who proposed epicycles as a way to explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
No one
Ur mom
Copernicus
Who invented the telescope? Spell it right
(a)
Retrograde motion...
Helps explain the seasons on Earth.
Is always correctly explained via epicycles.
Occurs when planets appear to move backward in their path across the sky.
Is an unexplainable phenomenon.
Who is the hottest planet in the solar system? (NOT THE SUN)
Jupiter
Venus
Mars
Saturn
I am the biggest planet, not the sun. Who am I?
The Sun
Jupiter
Saturn
Neptune
True or false: Neptune and Uranus are ice giants
False
True
Pluto is not considered a planet. Instead, it is a dwarf planet. Which of the following characteristics keeps Pluto from being a planet?
Pluto has not "cleared its orbit" meaning it will hit lots and lots of stuff as it orbits the sun.
Pluto has no moons and in order to be considered a planet, it has to have moons.
Pluto is not spherical in nature like all of the other planets in our solar system.
Pluto does not orbit the sun in a perfect circle and the same way that all the other planets do.
Which of the following things about the Sun is FALSE?
The Sun is mostly Hydrogen and Helium.
The Sun is 93 million miles from Earth.
The Sun is in the late stages of its lifespan. Kinda like a grandfather star.
The Sun is classified as a yellow dwarf.
What does the word planet come from?
(a)
Which of the following is true of the Inner planets.
All of these things are true.
They are small when compared to all the Outer planets.
They are considered "terrestrial".
They move the fastest around the sun.
What planet looks like it's spinning on its side?
Venus
Uranus
Neptune
Mercury
You just watched a beautiful total solar eclipse of the sun. What is this an example of?
An equinox
A transit.
Retrograde motion of the moon.
An epicycle.
Which of the following is true about the Outer Planets?
The outer planets have no moons.
The outer planets are much smaller than the inner planets.
All the outer planets have a solid surface for humans to explore.
A year on the outer planets is much longer than on Earth.
The ancient model of our solar system which had Earth at the center of everything is called a (a) model of the solar system.
The modern model of our solar system which has the Sun at the center of our solar system is called a (a) model of the solar system.
The outermost layer of the sun that you can see during a total solar eclipse is called the (a) .
One Astronomical Unit (AU) is the same as...
The distance from Earth to each of the other planets.
The distance from the Sun to the edge of the solar system.
The distance from the Sun to the Earth.
The distance from the center of the Milky Way galaxy to our solar system.
Due to the magnetic field surrounding the Earth, we are shielded from the constant stream of charged particles that travel outwards from the sun. This constant stream of charged particles that moves outwards across the entire solar system is called
(a)
