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Solar system questions grades 3 to 6
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Each planet orbits the sun in an ellipse with the sun at one focus was said by which scientist?
Johannes Kepler
Albert Einstein
Nicolaus Copernicus
Sir Isaac Newton
2
Which planet is a gas planet?
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Venus
3
Which planet has life on it?
Mercury
Earth
Mars
Venus
4
________________ is considered a dwarf planet.
Pluto
Earth
Jupiter
Mercury
5
What two planets DO NOT have moons orbiting around them?
Venus and Mercury
Venus and Earth
Mercury and Mars
Mars and Venus
6
The central star, our sun was formed here
protostellar disk
in a cloud
by Jupiter
law of universal gravitation
7
Where is Pluto located?
In the Kuiper belt
near Earth
by the sun
In the asteroid belt
8
What is the invisible path that planets move around called?
revolves
rotates
constellation
orbit
9
How long does it take the Earth to revolve around the sun?
About 365 days (1 year)
About 24 hours (1 day)
About 30 days (1 month)
Never, the Earth doesn't move
10
Which objects are located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?
comets
Asteroids
meteorites
Kuiper belt objects
11
Ptolemy said the Earth was at the center of the Universe. This is called
Geocentric
Sun centered
Parallax
Heliocentric.
12
Which planet is tilted on it's side as it orbits the sun?
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Jupiter
13
The inner planets closest to the sun are also called
the terrestrial planets
the small planets
solar nebular
The gas giants
14
Which planet has a density that is less than water so it would float.
Neptune
Earth
Mars
Saturn
15
Which object does the Earth revolve around?
Sun
planet
solar system
moon
16
Which planet is the largest in the solar system?
Saturn
Jupiter
Mars
Sun
17
Which gas planet is the furthest from the sun?
Mars
Neptune
Saturn
Mercury
18
The apparent shift in the position of an object when viewed from different locations is
geocentric
heliocentric
Parallax
19
Heliocentric says the sun is at the center of the Solar System was said by.......
Ptolemy
Copernicus and Galileo plus others
Aristotle
20
Compared to planets, these objects would be MUCH smaller.
comets and asteroids
none of the above
the Galaxy
the Sun
21
How many planets are in our solar system?
7
6
8
9
22
Everyone believed Galileo's ideas when he presented them.
False
True
23
What is the center of the solar system?
Moon
Earth
Venus
Sun
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All objects in the universe attract each other through gravitational force is...
The law of universal gravitation
Kepler's first law
a solar nebula
Einstein's