Week 15 Solar System

Week 15 Solar System

6th Grade

15 Qs

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Week 15 Solar System

Week 15 Solar System

Assessment

Quiz

Science

6th Grade

Hard

NGSS
HS-ESS1-4, MS-ESS1-3, MS-ESS1-2

Standards-aligned

Created by

Ruth Monarrez

Used 14+ times

FREE Resource

15 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

Look at the picture of the solar system.

Which object is a gaseous giant?

W

X

Y

Z

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which event took place during the Copernican revolution, when most people started to believe in a heliocentric model of the solar system?

Aristotle developed his model of the solar system.

Copernicus rediscovered Aristarchus’s heliocentric model.

Kepler's laws of planetary motion.

Newton’s theories of gravity were dismissed and considered invalid.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which two gaseous giants did Renaissance scientists such as Galileo know about?

Jupiter and Saturn

Mars and Neptune

Neptune and Uranus

Uranus and Saturn

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

How did Kepler’s discoveries contribute to astronomy?

They supported the heliocentric model.

They established the laws of planetary motion.

They explained how the Sun rises and sets.

They made astronomy accessible to people who spoke Italian.

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

In addition to proposing that planetary orbits are elliptical, what other modification did Kepler make to Copernicus’s model?

Planets closer to the Sun move faster.

Planets spin in an epicycle while orbiting Earth.

Venus has phases due to its orbiting of the Sun.

Earth’s rotation causes the rising and setting of the Sun.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

How did Kepler describe the planets’ orbits?

The planets’ orbits are circular.

The planets’ orbits are elliptical.

The planets and the Sun orbit Earth.

The planets have miniature orbits called epicycles.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Media Image

According to Kepler, which planet travels the fastest?

Earth

Jupiter

Mercury

Neptune

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

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