WorksheetsScience Quiz 4 - pg. 132-144
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
A planet’s full orbit around the sun is called a _______________.
rotation
year
axis
The continual path one heavenly body has around another is called its ________________.
rotation
year
axis
orbit
The sun and all the heavenly bodies that orbit it is the _________________ ________________.
solar system
universe
galaxy
planets
The closest star to earth is the ______________.
North Star
sun
moon
Mercury
A large heavenly body that orbits a star is a ______________.
planet
sun
moon
constellation
The planets closest to the sun – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars – are known as the _________________ planets.
outer
inner
The imaginary line at which Earth continually spins, or rotates is its _________________.
rotation
year
axis
orbit
The only planet that is designed for life is __________.
Jupiter
Saturn
Earth
Venus
The largest planet in our solar system is ________________.
Jupiter
Saturn
Earth
Venus
The outer planets that are made mostly of gases are called the __________ ________________.
Milky Way
inner planets
gas giants
The planets farthest from the sun – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune – are known as the ________________ planets.
outer
inner
Earth’s solar system is a part of the Tootsie Roll Galaxy.
True
False
A heavenly body that is a giant ball of hot, glowing gas is a _____________.
planet
star
cloud
moon
A group of stars that make a picture is a ___________________.
solar system
galaxy
constellation
planet
A star almost always located above the North Pole is the ______________ _______________.
planet
sun
North Star
constellation
