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Solar System Quiz Middle School #solarsystem
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Which are terrestrial planets?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
Ceres, Pluto, Eres, Makemake
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Which planet has toxic sulfuric acid clouds?
Venus
Earth
Mercury
Jupiter
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This planet with the hottest temperatures due to greenhouse gases:
uranus
neptune
venus
mars
4
In order to be a planet, an object must meet this criteria:
dominate its own orbit
orbit the Earth
be bigger than the Moon
have an ellipitical orbit
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This planet is the only planet where water exists in solid, liquid and gas form:
Jupiter
Earth
Uranus
Venus
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What reaction takes place in the center of the Sun?
nuclear fission
nuclear fusion
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What is an asteroid composed of?
frozen gas
liquid hydrogen
a piece of irregular rock
rock dust
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The sun, the eight planets, and many other smaller objects make up the:
star cluster
Solar System
solar wind
Milky Way galaxy
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Where are asteroids mostly located?
between Mars and Jupiter
beyond Neptune
between Saturn and Uranus
between Mercury and Venus
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Where is the Kuiper belt?
Closest to the Sun
As far as Pluto
Between Mars and Jupiter
Around Saturn
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Large planet that has a storm that has been raging for over 300 years:
Saturn
Neptune
Mars
Jupiter
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Which planet has geysers that erupt nitrogen gas?
Saturn
Mars
Uranus
Neptune
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What happens to a comet as it approaches the Sun?
ices solidify forming a tail that points away from the Sun
ices vaporize, forming a tail that points toward the Sun
ices vaporize, forming a tail that points away from the Sun
rock vaporizes forming a tail that separates near the Sun
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Where are long term comets thought to originate?
Asteroid belt
Kuiper belt
Oort cloud
Makemake
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Which planet has the most moons
Mercury
Neptune
Jupiter
Saturn
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Which planet has the most complex ring system?
Uranus
Saturn
Neptune
Sircular
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Which of the following are considered dwarf planets:
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
Phobos, Deimos, Titan
Pluto, Ceres, Mercury
Pluto, Ceres, Eris
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This planet is known as the "red planet" due to iron oxide in its soil.
Mars
Mercury
Venus
Saturn
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_________ is the center of the universe in the Geocentric model.
Sun
Earth
Moon
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Which planet's have atmosphere contains methane?
Jupiter and Saturn
Earth and Mars
Mercury and Venus
Neptune and Uranus
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Who observed Jupiter's moons?
Galileo Galilei
Nicolaus Coppernicus
James Hutton
Albert Einstein
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Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet because...
it was not a sphere
of the discovery of other larger space objects
it had too many moons
it did not clear it's orbit of debris
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What object is the center of our solar system?
moon
sun
earth
24
The largest planet in the solar system is?
Saturn
Uranus
Jupiter
Earth
25
An astronomical unit is:
used to measure distance in the solar system
150 million km
all of the above
distance from Earth of Sun
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Planet with no atmosphere:
venus
mars
ceres
mercury
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Planet that is furthest planet from the sun and is blue:
neptune
pluto
uranus
earth
28
This planet rotates on it's side:
Uranus
Pluto
Neptune
Saturn
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More than 99% of the Solar System's mass is contained in...
the Sun
Jupiter
the Asteroid Belt
8 planets
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Which space object would have hit Earth's surface?
meteoroid
meteor
meteorstike
meteorite
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Which planet has polar ice caps?
Neptune
Mars
Mercury
Saturn
