Exploring the Solar System

What is Solar System?

• A machine launched into space by a rocket

• The Sun with eight planets and other Bodies such as dwarf planets, moons and asteroids revolving around it

• A Solar System is a Solar System

• A Solar System consists of the sun, which is a planet and seven planets

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All the planets revolves around the Sun

• True

• False

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A ______ is a lump of ice and dirt that moves in a large orbit around the Sun

• Comet

• Meteor

• astronomers

Between Mars and Jupiter are Rockey objects called ________ that orbit the Sun

• Astronaut

• Astronomers

• Asteroids

• None of the above

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When rocks and particles from space enter Earth's atmosphere, we call them ________ or shooting stars

• Astronomers

• Meteor's

• Stars

• Comet

What is the 2nd planet around the Sun?

• Jupiter

• Mercury

• Venus

• Neptune

What is the Sun mainly made from?

• Fire

• Solid objects

• Nothing

• Gases

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Earth takes ______ to complete One rotation

• 42 hours

• 26 hours

• 24 hours

• None of the above

An imaginary line passing through Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole in which the Earth moves in the line what is it called ?

• Orbit

• Movement

• Rotation

• Axis

When the Earth is moving we call this _______

• Rotation

• Revolution

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