2025 Solar System

Iron oxide is found on Mars, giving it its distinct color. What is a common name for iron oxide?

The heliocentric system gained support from which scientists?

• Galileo, Brahe, Ptolemy
• Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe
• Copernicus, Ptolemy, Galileo
• Newton, Einstein, Copernicus

Which scientist discovered that each planet actually orbits in an ellipse instead of an exact circle?

• Kepler
• Copernicus
• Galileo
• Ptolemy

Which planets look to be blue due to the methane in their atmospheres?

• Uranus
• Neptune
• Mercury
• Mars
• Venus

___ are dark spots on the sun that are cooler than the gases that are around them.

• sunspots
• core
• corona
• photosphere

What type of system is represented by the picture below?

• heliocentric
• geocentric
• Copernicun
• Galactic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The solar system is believed to be ___ years old.

• 4.6 million
• 4.6 billion
• 4.2 trillion
• 100,000

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Small asteroid like bodies that became the building blocks of the planets were called ____.

• planetesimals
• comets
• meteoroids
• open clusters

The sun produces energy through the process of ____.

• nuclear fusion
• nuclear fission
• prominences
• attracting it with the force of gravity

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

Which planet has the most extreme temperatures because it has virtually no atmosphere?

• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• Neptune