UNIT 4 -PLANETS AND EARTH PATTERNS

What do Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars all have in common?

• They are all very cold planets

• They are about the same size

• They are considered terrestrial planets

• They are considered gas giants

Which planets are the gas giants?

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Pluto, Mars, Venus, Earth

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

A student was making a model for the solar system. What order should she put the planets?

• Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Mars, Mercury, Earth, Uranus, Jupiter

• Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Mars, Jupiter, Earth, Uranus, Saturn

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A student was making a model of the solar system and noticed that the planets were not all the same size. What order would he put the planets if he organized them from smallest to largest?

• Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Mars, Mercury, Earth, Uranus, Jupiter

• Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Mars, Jupiter, Earth, Uranus, Saturn

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Which of these takes about one year to complete?

• The moon to orbit Earth

• The sun to orbit Earth

• Earth to rotate on its axis

• Earth to orbit the sun

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What occurrence in space causes the seasons?

• The stars revolve around the Sun while on their axis.

• The Earth makes a complete rotation.

• Earth revolves around the Sun while tilted on its axis.

• The Moon revolves around the Earth.

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How long does it take to go through the phases of the Moon cycle?

• About one month

• About one decade

• About one day

• About one year

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When the Moon appears to get bigger each night, the Moon

• revolves

• waxes

• wanes

• rotates

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Halfway through its orbit around the Earth, the entire side of the Moon that faces Earth is illuminated. This phase is called the

• full moon

• gibbous moon

• quarter moon

• new moon

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The Moon is seen because

• the stars shine on it all night

• sunlight reflects off of its surface

• the Moon makes its own light

• the Moon's surface is hot

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