Science Semester Exam

Name the only planet that supports life:

• Earth

• Mars

• Venus

• Mercury

Name the planet best known for its rings

• Venus

• Neptune

• Saturn

• Mercury

Name the planet named after the Roman god of war because of its reddish color:

• Mercury

• Uranus

• Jupiter

• Mars

Label the image of the solar system using the provided list: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.

• 1: Mercury, 2: Venus, 3: Earth, 4: Mars, 5: Jupiter, 6: Saturn, 7: Uranus, 8: Neptune, 9: Pluto

• 1: Venus, 2: Mercury, 3: Earth, 4: Mars, 5: Jupiter, 6: Saturn, 7: Uranus, 8: Neptune, 9: Pluto

• 1: Mercury, 2: Earth, 3: Venus, 4: Mars, 5: Jupiter, 6: Saturn, 7: Uranus, 8: Neptune, 9: Pluto

• 1: Mercury, 2: Venus, 3: Mars, 4: Earth, 5: Jupiter, 6: Saturn, 7: Uranus, 8: Neptune, 9: Pluto

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Name the four planets that have rings:

• Saturn

• Mercury

• Uranus

• Jupiter

• Neptune

How many times does the earth rotate in one year?

• 300

• 365

• 52

• 24

As Earth spins, or rotates, it looks as though the Sun and the moon are both moving across our sky very slowly throughout the day

• True

• False

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We can feel the movement of Earth as it moves through space.

• True

• False

If it is 9 am in San Francisco, is it also 9 am in New York?

• True

• False

The pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of Earth's rotation was created by who?

• Anders Celsius

• Francesco Redi

• Léon Foucault

• Carl Linnaeus