Quiz about Solar System Review

Question 1

Which planet is not an inner planet?

Accepted Answer

Saturn

Answer

Earth

Answer

Mars

Answer

Venus

Question 2

Which one is not an outer planet?

Accepted Answer

Mars

Answer

Jupiter

Answer

Neptune

Answer

Uranus

Question 3

Which planet is furthest away from the sun?

Accepted Answer

Neptune

Answer

Mercury

Answer

Venus

Answer

Jupiter

Question 4

Which planet has the Great Red Spot?

Accepted Answer

Jupiter

Answer

Pluto

Answer

Uranus

Answer

Earth

Question 5

Where is the asteroid belt?

Accepted Answer

Between the inner and outer planets

Answer

Past pluto

Answer

All over our solar system

Answer

Between Earth and Venus

Question 6

What is a fact about the outer planets?

Accepted Answer

They are made of gas.

Answer

They are smaller.

Answer

They are made of rock

Answer

They have no rings.

Question 7

What is a fact about the inner planets?

Accepted Answer

They are smaller.

Answer

They are made of gas.

Answer

They have many moons.

Answer

They have rings.

Question 8

Celestial bodies made of frozen ice, rock and dust

Accepted Answer

Comet

Answer

Asteroid

Answer

Meteor

Answer

Meteorite

Question 9

Celestial bodies that are burning up in Earth's atmosphere.

Accepted Answer

Meteor

Answer

Asteroid

Answer

Comet

Answer

Meteorite

Question 10

What is the distance from the Sun to the Earth called?

Accepted Answer

Astronomical unit

Answer

Light year

Answer

Astronauts meter

Answer

Light meter

Question 11

What is the order of the INNER planets from closest to farthest from the sun?

Accepted Answer

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

Answer

Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn

Answer

Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury

Answer

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Question 12

What is the order of the OUTER planets from closest to farthest from the sun?

Accepted Answer

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Answer

Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn

Answer

Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury

Answer

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

Question 13

Which of the following is not considered a major planet?

Accepted Answer

Pluto

Answer

Saturn

Answer

Earth

Answer

Mercury

Question 14

Small bodies that orbit planets.

Accepted Answer

Moons

Answer

Suns

Answer

Planetesimals

Answer

Satelites

Question 15

Which planet is most similar to Uranus?

Accepted Answer

Neptune

Answer

Pluto

Answer

Saturn

Answer

Mercury

Question 16

Which planet would float on water?

Accepted Answer

Saturn

Answer

Jupitor

Answer

Uranus

Answer

Mars

Question 17

Orbit sun in long ellipses.

Accepted Answer

Comets

Answer

Meteors

Answer

Astroids

Answer

Meteorites

Question 18

This planet has the right combination of temperature, sunlight, water, and oxygen to support life?

Accepted Answer

Earth

Answer

Mars

Answer

Saturn

Answer

Jupitor

Question 19

Earth's twin.

Accepted Answer

Venus

Answer

Mars

Answer

Mercury

Answer

Jupitor

Question 20

Which planet has the most complex ring system?

Accepted Answer

Saturn

Answer

Jupiter

Answer

Uranus

Answer

Neptune

Question 21

What is Jupiter's Red Spot?

Accepted Answer

Raging Storm

Answer

Vast Canyon

Answer

Frozen Ocean

Answer

Massive Volcano

Question 22

The asteroid belt can be found between which two planets?

Accepted Answer

Mars and Jupiter

Answer

Earth and Mars

Answer

Jupiter and Saturn

Answer

Saturn and Uranus

Question 23

The smallest planet.

Accepted Answer

Mercury

Answer

Pluto

Answer

Venus

Answer

Earth

Question 24

The largest planet.

Accepted Answer

Jupiter

Answer

Saturn

Answer

Uranus

Answer

Neptune

Question 25

The scientist behind the geocentric model.

Accepted Answer

Aristotle

Answer

Ptolemy

Answer

Copernicus

Answer

Kepler

Question 26

The correct scientist who said the planets revolve around the sun.

Accepted Answer

Copernicus

Answer

Kueterman

Answer

Kepler

Answer

Mendel

Question 27

The scientist behind the laws of planetary motion.

Accepted Answer

Kepler

Answer

Ptolemy

Answer

Aristotle

Answer

Copernicus

Question 28

Time of year when the earth is closest to the sun.

Accepted Answer

Perihelion

Answer

Aphelion

Answer

Charmelion

Answer

Summer

Question 29

Time of year when the earth is farthest from the sun.

Accepted Answer

Aphelion

Answer

Perihelion

Answer

Charmelion

Answer

Summer

Question 30

Law that describes the speed at which planets travel at different points in their orbits.

Accepted Answer

Law of equal areas

Answer

Law of ellipses

Answer

Law of orbits

Answer

Law of sines

Question 31

Earth's surface is _____ % water.

Accepted Answer

71 %

Answer

79%

Answer

29%

Answer

72%

Question 32

Which planet rotates like a rolling ball?

Accepted Answer

Uranus

Answer

Venus

Answer

Pluto

Answer

Neptune

Question 33

Which planet has 2 moons called Phobos and Deimos?

Accepted Answer

Mars

Answer

Venus

Answer

Earth

Answer

Uranus

Question 34

Saturn.

Accepted Answer

a planet with a complex ring system made of ice and debris

Answer

a ring of debris that separates the inner and outer planets

Answer

the largest planet, contains dark and light bands

Answer

this planet has methane in its atmosphere.

Answer

a large planet with a deep and gaseous atmosphere; less dense than a terrestrial planet.

Question 35

Asteriod belt.

Accepted Answer

a ring of debris that separates the inner and outer planets

Answer

a planet with a complex ring system made of ice and debris

Answer

the largest planet, contains dark and light bands

Answer

this planet has methane in its atmosphere.

Answer

a large planet with a deep and gaseous atmosphere; less dense than a terrestrial planet.

Question 36

Gas giant.

Accepted Answer

a large planet with a deep and gaseous atmosphere; less dense than a terrestrial planet.

Answer

a ring of debris that separates the inner and outer planets

Answer

a planet with a complex ring system made of ice and debris

Answer

the largest planet, contains dark and light bands

Answer

this planet has methane in its atmosphere.

Question 37

Jupiter.

Accepted Answer

the largest planet, contains dark and light bands

Answer

a ring of debris that separates the inner and outer planets

Answer

a planet with a complex ring system made of ice and debris

Answer

this planet has methane in its atmosphere.

Answer

a large planet with a deep and gaseous atmosphere; less dense than a terrestrial planet.

Question 38

Uranus.

Accepted Answer

this planet has methane in its atmosphere.

Answer

a ring of debris that separates the inner and outer planets

Answer

a planet with a complex ring system made of ice and debris

Answer

the largest planet, contains dark and light bands

Answer

a large planet with a deep and gaseous atmosphere; less dense than a terrestrial planet.

Question 39

Why are Uranus and Neptune blue?

Accepted Answer

Methane

Answer

Oxygen

Answer

Chlorine

Answer

Propane

Question 40

Asteroids are small and smash into the earth's atmosphere, meteoroids are larger and exist in a belt between Mars and Jupitor.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

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