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Solar System - Grade 7

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of the closest planet to the sun?

a)

Earth

b)

Venus

c)

Mercury

d)

Jupiter

e)

Mars

2.

Who is known as the father of modern astronomy and formulated the heliocentric theory?

a)

Nicolaus Copernicus

b)

Galileo Galilei

c)

William Harschel

d)

Urbain Le Verrier

e)

Percival Lowell

3.

Who was the first person to see the planet Saturn through a telescope and discovered four large moons of Jupiter?

a)

Percival Lowell

b)

Nicolaus Copernicus

c)

Urbain Le Verrier

d)

Galileo Galilei

e)

William Herschel

4.

Which planet has the most extreme weather conditions in the solar system?

a)

Neptune

b)

Uranus

c)

Jupiter

d)

Merkurius

e)

Venus

5.

Which planet has a longer day than year?

a)

Mercury

b)

Mars

c)

Venus

d)

Saturn

e)

Jupiter

6.

What is the name of the English scientist who discovered Uranus in 1781?

a)

William Herschel

b)

Urbain Le Verrier

c)

John Couch Adams

d)

Percival Lowell

e)

Galileo Galilei

7.

Who was the ancient Greek philosopher who believed that the Earth was the center of the universe and that all other celestial bodies orbited it?

a)

Plato

b)

Aristotle

c)

Ptolemy

d)

Hipparchus

e)

Euclid

8.

Which planet is often referred to as the "Red Planet" due to its reddish appearance caused by iron oxide or rust on its surface?

a)

Venus

b)

Earth

c)

Saturn

d)

Jupiter

e)

Mars

9.

Who was the Italian astronomer and mathematician who discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter?

a)

Tycho Brahe

b)

Galileo Galilei

c)

Nicolaus Copernicus

d)

Johannes Kepler

e)

William Herschel

10.

Who was the first to discover Uranus and name it Georgium Sidus?

a)

William Herschel

b)

Galileo Galilei

c)

Johannes Kepler

d)

Tycho Brahe

e)

Isaac Newton

11.

Who was the first human to travel to space, aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft in 1961?

a)

Sally Ride

b)

Neil Armstrong

c)

Alan Shepard

d)

Yuri Gagarin

e)

Valentina Tereshkova

12.

Who is the French mathematician who predicted the existence and position of Neptune, based on mathematical calculations in 1846?

a)

Johannes Kepler

b)

Urbain Le Verrier

c)

Tycho Brahe

d)

Nicolaus Copernicus

e)

Isaac Newton

13.

What is the name of the mission that sent the first humans to the Moon in 1969?

a)

Gemini

b)

Apollo 11

c)

Mercury

d)

Vostok

e)

Soyuz

14.

Which planet has the most moons in the solar system?

a)

Uranus

b)

Saturn

c)

Jupiter

d)

Neptune

e)

Mars

15.

Which planet is often called the "evening star" or the "morning star" because it is visible to the naked eye and appears as a bright light?

a)

Mercury

b)

Mars

c)

Jupiter

d)

Saturn

e)

Venus