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Solar System Quiz
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Thick clouds surrounding this planet reflect the sun's light, making it the brightest planet in the sky.
Pluto
Venus
Mercury
Mars
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Identify this picture.
a nebula of swirling gasses with a protostar in the center
Betalgeuse; a super red giant star
Jupiter's Great Red Spot; a hurricane like storm about the size of Earth
the planet Mars seen on a cloudy day
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What phase of the Moon do we see from the Earth at position "A"?
Full Mooon
New Moon
Thrid Quarter Moon
First Quarter Moon
4
Without the Moon, there would be no ...
magnetic field or atmosphere.
seasons, leap years or monsoons.
craters, asteroids or meteors.
tides, eclipses or months.
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What is unusual about Pluto's orbit?
Pluto's orbit is almost a perfect circle.
It is inclined to the other planets and crosses Neptune's orbit.
Pluto's orbit is so fast that it has the shortest year in the Solar System.
Pluto is the only planet that doesn't orbit the Sun.
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Distances in the Solar System are often measured in...
astromical units
nanometers
kilometers
meters
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What phenomena does this image represent?
the "hour glass" phenomena
a New Moon
the formation of a nebula
a Lunar Eclipse
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This part of the sun reveals itself during an eclipse.
The Radiative Zone
The Corona
The Moon
The Core
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The names of Mars' two satellites are...
Ganymede and Europa
Io and Callista
Titan and Triton
Phobos and Deimos
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The Jovian planets, also called Gas Giants or "the outer planets", are...
Jupiter, Satrun, Uranus and Neptune.
a nickname for rocket that is powered by hyrdrogen gas.
Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
Red Dwarf stars, Red Giant stars, Blue stars and Neutron stars.
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If there is life on Mars, it is most likely in the form of...
Short, red worms.
Microorganisms like bacteria.
Super intelligent creatures ready to wage war on other planets.
Creatures that are good at digging holes like rabbits and badgers.
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What phase of the Moon do we see from Earth at position B?
Third Quarter Moon
New Moon
First Quarter Moon
Full Moon
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What phase is the moon in position C?
Waning Crescent
First Quarter
Waxing Gibbous
Waning Gibbous
14
Mercury is similar to the Earth's Moon because?
It is covered with craters and it also has a few plains.
Its thick atmosphere makes it so hot.
It is almost perfectly smooth.
It has frozen water on its poles.
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What phase of the moon is position D?
Quarter Moon
Waning Crescent
Blue Moon
Waxing Crescent
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In Astronomy, what time of the year is it in the Northern Hemisphere when the Earth is at this place in its orbit.
Summer Equinox
Summer Solstice
Winter Solstice
Autumnal Solstice
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Bonus: This famous person helped others escape to freedom in Canada by following the North Star and the Drinking Gourd.
Viola Desmond
Jean Augustine
Harriet Tubman
Maya Angelou
18
The inner planets, also called rocky planets or terrestrial planets, are ..
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Pluto.
The Moon, Phobos and Deimos.
Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
Pluto, Ceres, Makemake and Eris.
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This false color image is of...
....the Asteroid Belt; there are so many of them that they appear as a ring
...Mercury, because it's atmosphere has been blown away by solar winds
...Saturn, because it has rings
...Uranus, becuase it has rings and rotates at a 90 degree angle
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Storms on Neptune indicate that...
...that it rains liquid water on the planet.
...the atmosphere on Neptune is active and changes rapidly.
....that there is an ocean beneath Neptun's clouds.
...that there is life on Neptune.
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What phenomena is being represented by this image?
A Lunar Eclipse
A Blood Moon
A Full Moon
A Solar Eclipse
22
What Renaissance astronomers tried to convince people that the Sun was actually the center of the Solar System?
Copernicus and Galileo
Einstein and Hawking
Ptolomy and Aristotle
Newton and Halley
23
The Earth is composed of...
A liquid water core and an atmosphere of carbon dioxide.
A crust made of nickel and iron and a core made of icy materials.
An inner core, outer core, mantle and crust.
A dirty snowball.
24
A year on Earth is about 365 days. This is the time it takes ...
for the North Star (Polaris) to travel across the night sky.
for the Earth to orbit once around the Sun.
for the Moon to orbit once around the Earth.
for the Earth to rotate one time on its axis.
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A day on Earth is about 24 hours long. This is the time it takes for ...
the Earth to orbit once around the Sun.
the big hand to rotate 360 degrees on an analogue clock.
the Moon to rotate once around the Earth.
the Earth to rotate one full time on its axis.
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What are Saturn's rings made of?
Millions of asteroids that orbit Saturn.
Ice, rocks and particles of dust that orbit Saturn.
Solid bands of rocky material that circle around Saturn.
Meteoroids that are caught in Saturn's gravity.
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The sun is mostly made of...
Fire
Iron and Nickel
Hydrogen and Helium
Nitrogen and Oxygen
