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Solar System
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A review of basic solar system concepts.
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The imaginary line around which a planet rotates.
foul line
Axis
North Pole
equator
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The time it takes for a planet to rotate once.
Month
Week
Year
Day
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Path a planet takes as it revolves around the Sun.
perihelion
crater
orbit
revolution
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A bowl-shaped hole formed when a space object hit a planet.
a divot
The Grand Canyon
Crater
Volcano
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The time it takes for a planet to complete one revolution around the Sun.
Day
Year
Week
Month
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An object that travels around another object in space.
a rotation
satellite
space ship
a revolution
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What is another name for a shooting star?
meteor
asteroid
constellation
comet
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Name the outer planets
Neptune and Pluto
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
Earth
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
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A star and all of the objects that travel around it is called a _____.
an orbit
the universe
solar system
aphelion
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What is a scale model?
The actual size and distance of objects.
A model used to show relative size and distance of objects.
A picture of a scale
A model made of plastic
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What are the outer planets mostly made of?
Gas
Water
Rocks
Iron
12
A huge ball of glowing gas that gives off light and heat.
satellite
moon
planet
star
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All the gases around a planet
atmosphere
oxygen
carbon dioxide
comet
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Frozen chunk of dust, ice, and gases that revolves around the Sun.
comet
meteorite
crater
planetoid
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The force that keeps each planet in its path around the Sun.
Gravity
Push
Pull
Atmosphere
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What are the inner planets mostly made of?
water
rocks
hydrogen
gas
17
Why do we see the different phases of the moon?
The amount of the Moon that is lighted by the Sun changes.
The moon changes in shape and size.
The Moon orbits the Sun and is sometimes behind it.
We see different amounts of the light the moon gives off.
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Name the inner planets.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
Neptune and Pluto
Pluto, Jupiter, Mars
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
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Why does Earth have 4 different seasons?
So that it is not hot in one place all year long.
It has a tilted axis and it revolves around the Sun
We are closer to the Sun at different times of the year.
So that one part of the Earth does not freeze
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Why is a year longer on some planets than on Earth?
The planet rotates more slowly that Earth.
The planet is bigger than Earth.
The planet has a bigger orbit than Earth.
The planet is closer to the Sun than Earth.
