Space and Astronomy Quiz

Aria jumps up while playing in the park, but she always comes back down to the ground. This invisible force is keeping her on Earth.

• asteroid

• gravity

• moon

• solar system

Tags

NGSS.5-PS2-1

Grace is looking at the night sky and notices that Earth has one of these, but she reads that Jupiter has more than 70! They orbit around planets.

• moon

• gas planet

• asteroid

• terrestrial planet

Jackson is using his phone to navigate through a new city. His GPS works because a man-made object is orbiting Earth and sending signals back down.

• ice planet

• satellite

• moon

• gravity

Aria is looking at a model of our neighborhood in space. She knows that Earth orbits the Sun, and she wants to know what Earth is classified as, just like the other seven in our solar system.

• solar system

• asteroid

• planet

• satellite

Priya is reading about planets in her science book. She learns that Neptune is far away from the Sun and has frozen water mixed into its surface. Based on this information, Neptune is considered an ____.

• ice planet

• ice cream bar

• ice age planet

• ice mountain planet

Ava is reading about planets in her science book. She learns that Jupiter is huge, made mostly of hydrogen and helium, and doesn’t have a solid surface. Scientists call it a ____.

• gas planet

• gas explosion planet

• gas ring planet

• great pressure planet

Emma is studying the planets in our solar system. She notices that Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury all have rocky surfaces. She learns that these planets are classified as ____.

• terrestrial planets

• ice planets

• dwarf planets

• gas giants

Benjamin is learning about space in school. His teacher tells him that the Sun, eight planets, their moons, asteroids, and comets all belong to one giant space family called the ____.

• solar system

• sedgeway garden

• solar eclipse

• solar radiation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A space rock about the size of a house passed close to Earth last month. Luckily, it didn’t hit us! That rock is called an ____.

• asteroid
• apple

• amazon

• antenna

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Charlotte is taking a walk on the beach at night. She looks up and sees a glowing object in the sky that causes ocean tides on Earth. What is she looking at?

• asteroid

• moon

• terrestrial planet

• gas planet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2