Solar System Quiz Practice - 4th grade

What does rotate mean?

• jump

• spin

• go

• run

The imaginary line drawn from the North Pole to the South Pole

• revolve

• asteroids

• Earth's axis

• inner planet

To move in a circular, or nearly circular path around something else

• moon

• comet

• rotate

• revolve

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

the path a revolving object moves along

• Earth's axis

• outer planet

• orbit

• new moon

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

when you can't see the lighted half of the moon

• new moon

• planet

• star

• orbit

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

hot glowing sphere of gases that give off energy

• star

• asteroid

• comet

• meteorite

satellites of the sun

• constellation

• Earth

• planet

• comet

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

when the lighted side of the moon is facing Earth

• new moon

• full moon

• inner planet

• outer planet

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

the Sun, Earth, 7 other planets, their moons, and smaller objects

• asteroid

• comets

• Solar System

• constellation

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Planets closest to the sun. They are warmer and smaller than other planets. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

• inner planets

• outer planets

• Solar System

• constellation