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Review of Chapter 3
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How many officially recognized dwarf planets are there?
4
5
2
3
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How long does it take for Earth's moon to rotate around it?
29.5 Days
A Leap Year
24 Hours
365 Days
3
Earth's revolution around the sun takes:
7 Days
12 Hours
24 Hours
1 Year
4
Which planet has the fastest winds reaching speeds of 1,200 mph?
Venus
Neptune
Saturn
Jupiter
5
Kepler said that our planets orbit the sun in what kind of orbit?
Circular
Elliptical
Triangular
Irregular
6
The Kuiper Belt is found...
Among the terrestrial planets
Within the gas giants
Beyond Neptune
Between Jupiter and Mars
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When viewed from a direction above the North Pole, the planets appear to circle the Sun...
counterclockwise
clockwise
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This was thought to have created our solar system
The Big Bang
Nebular Theory
Nuclear Fusion
Copernican Heliocentric View
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What two planets DO NOT have moons orbiting around them?
Venus and Mercury
Mercury and Mars
Mars and Venus
Venus and Earth
10
Dwarf planets are:
not big enough to clean up their orbital path.
planets that aren't round.
planets that have no known solid surface area.
big enough to orbit the sun and have at least two moons.
11
Pluto is considered a dwarf planet because...
its orbit crossed Neptune's
it has no moons
it orbits Jupiter, not the sun
it hasn't cleared its orbit
12
The view that the Earth is the center of the universe
Heliocentric
Geocentric
Solar System
Retrograde
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About how many moons does our solar system have?
1
1,000
3
150
14
The
smallest
planet in our solar system is _____.
Earth
Mercury
Mars
Venus
15
Which is the largest planet in our solar system ?
Mars
Jupiter
Neptune
Saturn
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How is Uranus different than the other planets?
It's tilted on its side
Covered by storms
Coldest planet
Only planet with rings
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How old is our Earth?
100 Billion Years Old
13.7 Million Years Old
4.6 Billion Years Old
We don't know for sure
18
the asteroid belt is between which two planets?
Mars and Neptune
Mars and Jupiter
Mars and Earth
Mars and Saturn
19
Which planet has the longest day?
Jupiter
Venus
Mars
Mercury
20
Who was the first astronomer to observe that Jupiter had a moon and Venus had phases?
Kepler
Brahe
Ptolemy
Galileo
21
The group of 4 planets closest to the sun is called
Gravity Group
Ptolemy
Jovious
Terrestrial
22
Which is considered our Solar System's hottest planet?
Jupiter, because it's our biggest planet
Neptune, because it's furthest from the sun
Mercury, because it's closest to the sun
Venus
23
What does an Astronomical Unit represent?
The distance from Los Angeles to New York City
The distance from Earth to the Mon
The size of the Milky Way galaxy
The average distance from Earth to Sun
24
How did the moon form?
from the pull of the sun's gravity
From the asteroid belt
A small planet collided with earth
An asteroid hit and killed all the dinosaurs
25
What keeps Earth and other planets in their orbits around the Sun?
air
dark matter
dark energy
gravity
26
Which planet orbits opposite all the rest?
Mars
Neptune
Earth
Venus
27
What group are the four outer planets a part of?
Outer Crest
Jovian
Main Sequence
Terrestrial
28
How old is our Solar System?
13.7 Billion Years Old
55 Billion Years Old
100 Billion Years Old
4.6 Billion Years Old
29
Which of the following is not one of the inner planets
Earth
Neptune
Mars
Mars
30
The higher parts of the moon: (highlands)
solar winds
terrae
craters
solar flares
31
What planet has the longest orbital period?
Mars
Jupiter
Mercury
Neptune
32
Jupiter's 4 moons are known as
Galilean Moons
Copernican Moons
Nucleus Moons
The dwarf planets
33
Which star is at the center of our Solar System?
Alpha Centauri
Sirius
The Sun
Saturn
34
How many planets is our Solar System made up of?
8
63
2
4
35
Which planet has their day longer than their year?
Jupiter
Venus
Neptune
Mercury
36
A rotating cloud of interstellar gas and dust is called a
Nebula
Spiral disk
Protoplanet
Deferent
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Where can the volcano Olympus Mons be found?
Hawaii
Mercury
Mars
Venus
