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What is the difference between the inner and outer planets?
Inner planets are rocky and outer planets are gaseous
Outer planets are the middle that are gaseous
Inner planets are the middle that are rocky
Inner planets are gaseous and outer planets are rocky
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Pluto is considered..
A planet
A frozen rock
A dwarf planet
Asteroid
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Upon what does the force of gravity between two objects depend on?
The weight of the objects
The mass of two objects and the distance between them
How close they two are to one another
The attraction between the two objects
4
What is the name of our galaxy?
Orion
Snickers
Milky Way
Solar System
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Which lists the inner planets of our Solar System?
Neptune, Mars, Venus, Mercury
Earth, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
Pluto, Uranus, Saturn, Earth
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Solar Eclipse occurs when
When the Earth casts a shadow on the Moon
When the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun
It's really hot outside
When the Sun's light goes out
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The Moon's phases are caused by what?
Earth's rotation on its axis
Earth's orbit around the Sun
the Moon's orbit around the Earth
Earth's shadow on the Moon
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If something causes a satellite orbiting Earth to slow down, what will it do?
Leave Earth's gravity
Orbit slower
Move closer to Earth
burn up
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An Astronomical Unit (AU) is
the distance between the Sun and Earth
the distance between Earth and another planet
the distance between the Earth and the Moon
The distance between planets
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About how long does the Moon's phases take?
a week
a day
a month
a year
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What percentage of the Moon is always illuminated by the Sun?
50%
100%
10%
varies
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The planets are held in space by
Puppet Strings
Gravitational pull of stars
Gravitational attraction to the sun
Gravitational pull of the Moon
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Which lists the outer planets?
Neptune, Jupiter, Mars, Pluto
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Mercury, Venus Earth Pluto
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
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Changing seasons are caused by
Distance between the Earth and the Sun
Weather
Changes in the Sun's energy
The tilt of the Earth's axis
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The goal of the Apollo mission was to
Travel to Mars
Put a human on the surface of the Moon
Orbit the Earth
Explore Space
