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What planet is the hottest?
Mercury
Pluto
Venus
Earth
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What two planets do you find the asteroid belt between?
Jupiter and Saturn
Mars and Jupiter
Jupiter and Neptune
Mercury and Venus
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What does NEOs stand for?
Near Earth Objects
Next Earthly Objects
New Earth Orbits
Near Earth Orbits
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What does the heliocentric model explain?
The Sun is at the center of the solar system.
Helium is at the center of the solar system.
The Earth is at the center of the solar system.
The Milky Way is at the Center of our Solar System.
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What does AU stand for?
Axis Unit
Astronomy Unit
Axial Unit
Astronomical Unit
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What is this a picture of?
Meteorite
Meteor
Asteroid
Meteoroid
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What do we call the theory of our solar system formation?
Solar System Theory
Big Bang Theory
Nebular Theory
Fusion Theory
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How many tails do comets have?
3
4
1
2
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What was the dependent variable in our water accretion lab?
Diameter of crater
Distance marble fell
Diameter of water droplet
Height marble dropped
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What is thought to have brought water and organic materials to earth?
Comets
Meteoroids
All of the Above
Asteroids
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Question: Will I get out of bed faster when I wake up to music instead of an alarm? What would my Independent Variable?
None of the above
Style of music
Time to get out of bed
Music vs Alarm
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Which planet has the fastest winds?
Jupiter
Earth
Uranus
Neptune
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What is an AU equal to?
Average distance between earth and mars
Average distance between earth and moon
Average distance between earth and sun
Distance to the asteroid belt
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How long ago did our solar system form?
12 million years ago
4.6 billion years ago
14.6 billion years ago
66,000 years ago
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What are asteroids?
Meteorites
Chunks of ice
Meteoroids
Leftover debris from the formation of the solar system
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What is the largest planet in the solar system?
Mercury
Neptune
Jupiter
Saturn
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When our sun became a sun, what process started to create its energy?
Nuclear Fusion
Accretion Disc
Nebular Motion
Shining
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Which of these is the name for the rock actually hitting earth's surface?
meteoroid
asteroid
meteorite
meteor
