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What are asteroids made from?
Rock and Metal
Metal only
Ice
Rock only
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Why is Venus’s surface temperature so high ?
Venus is the closet planet to the sun .
Venus is the ninth planet from the sun.
Venus’s atmosphere produces an intense greenhouse effect.
Venus’s magnetic field makes the surface temperature high.
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Which of the these planets would have the greatest gravitational pull on a nearby object?
Neptune
Mercury
Earth
Jupiter
4
What force keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun?
gravity
air resistance
momentum
5
What are the Jovian or gas planets?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Earth, Mars Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
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A streak of light cross the night sky is sometimes called a “shooting star.” Its real name is
comet
meteor
meteorite
the Sun
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What is Io?
A moon of Jupiter
An asteroid
A comet
The nearest star
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One of the planets known to have rings is
Pluto
Mars
Venus
Saturn
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What is at the center of our solar system?
Comet
Black Hole
Sun
Earth
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Gravity is affected by two things:
mass and distance
weight and distance
distance and weight
mass and weight
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Which scientist's model of the solar system is this?
Copernicus
Kepler
Aristotle
Einstein
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Which of the following do the 8 planets all have in common?
They are gas giants
They are sphere shaped and orbit the sun
They have rocky surfaces
They all can support life
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What is the name of a metallic object that survived Earth's atmosphere and landed on Earth?
Meteoroid
Meteor
Meteorite
Comet
14
Which planet on the diagram represents Earth?
8th from sun
2nd from sun
3rd from Sun
4th from sun
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What are comets made from?
Ice only
Snow
Dust only
Ice and Dust
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Terrestrial planets are__________________.
Rocky
All of the above
Close to the Sun
Small
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Which of these planet is the hottest?
Mars
Uranus
Venus
Mercury
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What are the terrestrial planets?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
Earth, Jupiter, and Pluto
Pluto, Comets, Asteroids, Meteors
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Which planet represents Neptune?
5th from the Sun
3rd from the Sun
2nd from the sun
8th from the Sun
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Which statement is true
Mercury, Neptune, and Mars are rocky and small.
Uranus is farther from the sun than Neptune.
Venus is closer to Mercury than Mars
Earth is rocky and larger than Saturn.
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Which is the largest planet in the solar system?
Earth
The sun
Jupiter
Mercury
22
The majority of asteroids are found in a belt located between what two planets?
Earth and Mars
Mars and Jupiter
Mars and Venus
Jupiter and Saturn
23
Mercury revolves around the sun in 87 days. What causes Mercury to revolve around the sun?
The distance between the Sun and Mercury
The rocky composition of Mercury
The force of gravity between the Sun and Mercury
The tilt of Mercury on its axis
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What is the glowing head of a comet called?
crater
coma
head
nova
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Earth's layers are crust, mantle, inner and outer core. 3 elements that compose earth's crust.
Oxygen, Calcium & Silicon
Silicon, Copper & Aluminum
Oxygen, Aluminum & Silicon
Potassium, Copper & Oxygen
