solar system practice quizizz

What do we call Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?

• Outer Planets
• Terrestrial Planets
• Inner Planets
• Oort Cloud

Which planet is now characterized as a dwarf planet?

• Neptune
• Pluto
• Miss Best
• Coca-cola

Which planet is closest to the sun?

• Uranus
• Mercury
• Neptune
• Earth

What does a waxing moon mean?

• when the lit part of the moon increases
• when the lit part of the moon decreases
• the pathway the earth takes around the sun
• all of the planets, moon, and other space objects going around the sun

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What is the definition of orbit?

• the spinning of the earth on its axis

• when the lit part of the moon increases

• the path an object takes as it revolves around another object.

• the imaginary line that goes through the north and south poles that the earth spins on

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

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What is the center of our solar system?

• moon
• earth
• sun
• Jupiter

Which one takes 24 hours?

• rotation of the earth one time

• revolution of the earth around the sun one time

What describes the earth going around the sun?

• rotation
• revolution

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What causes day and night?

• rotation
• revolution

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Which one takes one year?

• rotation of the earth around one time.

• revolution of the earth around the sun one time.