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WorksheetsSpace New Alberta Curriculum Study Test
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the Gregorian Calendar named after?
a)
A roman named Greg who created it
b)
Pope Gregory XIII
c)
Another name for year in a foreign language
d)
A Turkish Mathematician
2.
How many planets are in our solar system?
a)
11
b)
5
c)
8
d)
9
3.
What does a waxing moon mean?
a)
when the lit part of the moon increases
b)
when the lit part of the moon decreases
c)
the pathway the earth takes around the sun
d)
all of the planets, moon, and other space objects going around the sun
4.
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
5.
What is the center of our solar system?
a)
moon
b)
earth
c)
sun
d)
Jupiter
6.
Which one takes 24 hours?
a)
rotation
b)
revolution
7.
What is energy created by the sun called?
a)
sun energy
b)
hot energy
c)
solar energy
d)
solar heat
8.
What is the sun?
a)
a star
b)
a comet
c)
a planet
d)
an asteroid
9.
What is the imaginary line that runs through the center of the Earth?
a)
axis
b)
revolution
c)
axle
d)
satellite
10.
When the southern hemisphere has winter, what season does the northern hemisphere have?
a)
winter
b)
spring
c)
summer
d)
fall
11.
All planets are the same size.
a)
True
b)
False
12.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
Which planet is missing?
Which planet is missing?
a)
Pluto
b)
Jupiter
c)
the sun
d)
the moon
13.
What attracts a body toward any other object in space
a)
the sun
b)
satellites
c)
gravity
d)
astroid belt
14.
the earth is a ...
a)
planet
b)
star
c)
satellite
d)
galaxy
15.
how may days does it take for the moon to orbit the earth ?
a)
28.5
b)
29.5
c)
30.5
d)
31.5
16.
the sun rises in the
(a)
17.
Stars are grouped together according to patterns known as ___________________.
a)
constellations
b)
solar systems
c)
galaxies
18.
Which planet in the solar system is the largest?
a)
Earth
b)
Uranus
c)
Jupiter
19.
Which of these causes the phases of the moon?
a)
earths orbit around the sun
b)
the moons orbit around earth
c)
the orbit of the sun as it orbits earth
d)
the orbit of the moon as it orbits the sun
20.
All of space and everything in it.
a)
Orion
b)
Binoculars
c)
Universe
d)
Telescopes
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