Solar System Review Wisniewski

Question 1

Which characteristics do all four outer planets share?

Accepted Answer

largest diameters in the solar system

Question 2

What is found between the inner planets and the outer planets?

Accepted Answer

asteroids

Question 3

Ian makes a cross-section model of the inner planets. Which characteristic would it have?

Accepted Answer

a large, solid core

Question 4

Most places on Earth have warmer summers and cooler winters. What is a major cause of warmer seasons?

Accepted Answer

That part of Earth's axis is tilted toward the sun.

Question 5

What does a solar system contain?

Accepted Answer

a star and all the bodies that revolve around it

Question 6

Rachel observed the moon, Venus, sun, and star Sirius. Which is outside the solar system?

Accepted Answer

Sirius

Question 7

Elliptical galaxies are brightest toward the center. Which best explains this?

Accepted Answer

The center is crowded with stars and decreases further out

Question 8

Pluto was reclassified as a nearly round body that crosses orbits of other bodies called...

Accepted Answer

dwarf planet

Question 9

It is currently daytime at point X shown on Earth. Which explains why it will be nighttime in 12 hours?

Accepted Answer

Earth rotates around its axis.

Question 10

About how long does it take the Earth to move from point Y - its current location - to point Z?

Accepted Answer

6 months

Question 11

Which describes an outer planet?

Accepted Answer

Gaseous, longer revolution period, larger

Question 12

What causes some stars to appear to stay in the same place while other appear to move across the sky during the night?

Accepted Answer

Earth rotates on its axis

Question 13

Why do the moon and stars appear to move across the sky?

Accepted Answer

Earth rotates

Question 14

Which of the following planets has a large solid core?

Accepted Answer

Mercury

Question 15

Which movement causes Earth to have day and night?

Accepted Answer

Earth's rotation on its axis

Question 16

Which of the following has no atmosphere?

Accepted Answer

the moon

Question 17

A student studies stars by identifying their surface type, composition, size, and distance from Earth. Which is a star?

Accepted Answer

Not solid surface, gas, large, far from Earth

Question 18

The picture shows the sun's rays shining on Ohio. Which figure is showing January?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 19

Which describes an inner planet?

Accepted Answer

Rocky, shorter revolution period, smaller

Question 20

Which is a major cause of the warmer temperatures in a particular part of Earth during summer?

Accepted Answer

That part of the Earth's axis is tilted toward the sun

Question 21

Why do the sun and moon appear to be the same size in the picture?

Accepted Answer

Although the sun is larger, it is farther away than the moon.

Question 22

All visible stars in the night sky are many times larger than Earth. Why do they look so tiny?

Accepted Answer

The stars visible at night are located far from Earth

Question 23

When viewed from the Northern Hemisphere, which star appears to stay in the same place in the sky throughout the night?

Accepted Answer

2

Question 24

Look at the picture. Which of the following correctly states the season for the given location.

Accepted Answer

It is winter at location H.

Question 25

The picture shows the sun's rays shining on Ohio. Which figure is showing July?

Accepted Answer

1

Question 26

Which star from the table could be the sun?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 27

What is an orbit?

Accepted Answer

the path one object takes around another in space

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