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The "Evening Star". It is an inner plant with a thick atmosphere named after the ROMAN Goddess of Love.
Venus
Mercury
Saturn
Mars
2
What does AU stand for?
Asteroid Universe
Average Unit
The nuclear fusion of hydrogen atoms into helium
Astronomical Unit
3
Which of these is
NOT
an inner planet?
Venus
Saturn
Mars
Mercury
4
An inner planet with water oceans, living things, people, tacos and Tupac's grave
Jupiter
Mercury
Earth
Mars
5
Earth's revolution (aka time it takes to revolves around the Sun) takes about...
365 days
6 months
24 hours
1 month
6
Which of the following is
NOT
a fact about the Sun?
The Sun is the center of our Solar System
The Sun is more massive then all the planets combined
The Sun is a star
The Sun is twice as big as Earth
7
Who can see star's more clearly? Hint: Less smog and less city lights help see stars more clearly
Someone in the desert
Someone in LA
Someone in Las Vegas
Someone in down town Riverside
8
An outer planet with a lot of visible rings around it. It is famous for its rings.
Jupiter
Mercury
Saturn
Neptune
9
Why do we have a 366 day year once every four years?
Because the equinox is on September 23rd
The Earth gets farther away from the Sun every four years
it takes 3651/4 days to go around the sun
To have a presidential election
10
Which is by far the most massive object in our solar system?
Jupiter
Earth
The Kuiper Belt
The Sun
11
How many stars are in our solar system?
Eight
One
Millions
Billions
12
Which of these is the
closest
to the Sun?
Mars
Saturn
Uranus
Jupiter
13
What is the area outside the orbit of Neptune full of dwarf planets and giant frozen chunks of ice?
Asteroid Belt
Kuiper Belt
Neptune Belt
Orion's Belt
14
Which of these is
NOT
an outer planet?
Venus
Neptune
Uranus
Saturn
15
The asteroid belt is between the orbit of which two planets?
Neptune and Uranus
Jupiter and Saturn
Mars and Jupiter
Mars and Earth
16
A blue outer planet with rings. it orbits on its side.
Neptune
Uranus
Venus
Saturn
17
Outer planet with a giant red spot. Has storms on its surface that last years.
Jupiter
Uranus
rSaturn
Mars
18
What is an astronomical unit used for?
Measure the mass of the Sun
Measure the volume of asteroids
Measure the distance inside of the Solar System
Measure the distances between galaxies
19
When the North Pole is tilted toward the Sun, Riverside will experience
long summer days
short summer days
short winter days
long winter days
20
Which is these is closet to the Sun?
Asteroid Belt
Kuiper Belt
Jupiter
Uranus
21
The Sun produces huge amounts of energy. What is the source of all that energy?
Energy left over from the big bang
Heat and light
Friction causes the sun to burn
Nuclear fusion in the Sun's core
22
Earth has seasons because
Earth's axis is tilted
the distance between Earth and the Sun changes
Earth rotates on its axis
the temperature of the sun changes
23
The "Red" planet. It is an inner planet. The sky looks red or pink and has ice at its poles.
Pluto
Jupiter
Earth
Mars
24
Which of these planets orbit between Mars and Venus?
Mercury
Earth
Jupiter
Saturn
25
What is
NOT TRUE
about the Kuiper Belt?
Objects in the Kuiper belt are mostly made up of ice
It contains many dwarf planets
Pluto is a Kuiper Belt object
It is closer to the Sun than Uranus
26
Which if these if the
farthest
from the sun?
Mercury
Uranus
Kuiper belt
Mars
27
One complete revolution of the Earth around the sun takes about...
One year
Eclipses
One season
Earth's rotation
28
Which of these planets is large and made out of gas?
Mars
Venus
Saturn
Mercury
29
Which of these is
NOT
a dwarf planet?
Ceres
The Moon
Eris
Pluto
30
A rocky inner planet that looks like the moon. It is the closet planet to the Sun .
Mercury
Eris
Jupiter
Venus
31
Day and night are caused by what?
The tilt of the Earth axis
Earth's rotation
Earth's revolution around the sun
Eclipses
32
What are big enough to be round but smaller the real planets? Don't have their own orbit.
Dwarf Planets
Dwarf comets
Asteroid
Meteros
33
A blue planet with visible clouds and storms on the surface. It is the farthest planet from the Sun.
Uranus
Neptune
Saturn
Venus
34
Which of these best describes the structure of our solar system?
Sun, inner planets, the Kuiper belt, the Asteroid belt, outer planets
Sun, inner planets, the asteroid belt, outer planets, and the Kuiper belt
None
Inner and outer planets, Sun, the asteroid belt, and then Kuiper belt
