The Solar System Quiz

The sun, the planets and their moons, and other objects that move around the sun is called___________.

• Orbit

• Milky Way

• The solar system

• Meteorites

A large body of matter that moves around a star such as the sun is called a _______________.

• Star

• Orbit

• Planet

• Moon

A very large mass of hot, glowing gases is called a __________.

• Planet

• Moon

• Star

• Asteroid

The __________ is the star at the center of the Solar System.

• Ganymede

• Europa

• Sun

• Moon

Planets move in a path around the sun. This path is called________.

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Orbit

• Axis

One full orbit around the sun is called a _________________. It takes 365.24 days for the Earth to revolve around the sun.

• Revolution

• Orbit

• Galaxy

• Spin

An imaginary line through a spinning object is called a _______________.

• Radius

• Diameter

• Orbit

• Axis

It takes Earth ________ to make a rotation.

• 80 hours

• 48 hours

• 24 hours

• 365 days

My name is ________________. I'm the second hottest planet, I'm the closest one to the sun, a year on my surface is eighty-eight days, I'm the smallest but I'm lots of fun.

• Mars

• Mercury

• Jupiter

• Saturn

My name is ______________ I'm the planet you live on, the third Planet from the sun, I'm the only planet with organic life so take care of me because we're all one.

• Venus

• Jupiter

• Earth

• Uranus