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Planet/Solar System Review (Post winter break)
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So hot that lead would meltat its surface.
Saturn
Mercury
Venus
Neptune
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Giant dust storms often cover the entireplanet, forming huge sand dunes; has many volcanoes.
Mercury
Mars
Earth
Venus
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Windiest planet; Great DarkSpot is a storm about the size of earth known to vanish and reform.
Mars
Neptune
Venus
Saturn
4
Third planet from the sun;atmosphere made mostly of nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide.
Uranus
Venus
Jupiter
Earth
5
What separates the inner planets from the outer planets?
asteroid belt
Jupiter
sun
Earth
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Chunk of rock or iron lessthan 1,000 km in diameter that orbits the sun
Moon
Dwarf Planet
Comet
Asteroid
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Earth and Saturn are bothplanets orbiting the sun. What do the two planets havein common?
They rotate about an axis.
They have a thinatmosphere.
They have about the samemass.
Their orbits are the samelength
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A natural rocky object thatrevolves around a planetary body
Dwarf Planet
Moon
Planet
Solar System
9
The Kuiper Belt contains thousands of objects. Where is the Kuiper Belt located?
just before Mercury
between Uranus and Neptune
just beyond Neptune
between Mars and Jupiter
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Which statement describes aproperty of Venus that is DIFFERENT from Earth?
It has no atmosphere.
It is much colder.
It has a ring system
It has no moons.
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A large, round body thatrevolves around a star
Planet
Moon
Solar System
Dwarf Planet
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A star and all the planetsand other objects that revolve around it
Solar System
Planet
Moon
Dwarf Planet
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Thousands of rings made upof ice and rock around it; has large storms.
Neptune
Jupiter
Uranus
Saturn
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Seasons last more than 20 years; hot gases bubbleto the surface causing bright clouds.
Neptune
Mars
Jupiter
Uranus
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Why is the sun consideredthe center of the solar system?
It is closer to Earth thanother stars.
Everything in the solarsystem revolves around the sun.
The sun produces light andenergy.
The sun is the largestobject that can be seen
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Which of these propertiesof Pluto explains why it is classified as a dwarf planet?
It has other bodies in itsorbit.
It does not orbit the sun.
It is too small to be aplanet.
It is too far from Earth.
17
A round body,slightly smaller than a planet, whose orbit crosses the orbits of Another body
Asteroid
Moon
Dwarf Planet
Comet
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It is difficult to see the surface of Venus through a telescope. Why is it difficult to see?
It is too far from Earth tobe seen.
It is surrounded by thickclouds.
It is covered completely bywater.
It does not produce lightof its own.
19
Which of these objects thathe observed was outside the solar system?
the sun
Sirius
the moon
Jupiter
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What is the MAIN differencebetween the orbits of the inner and outer planets?
The OPs rotate asthey orbit the sun, and the IPs do not.
The IPs havealmost round orbits, and the OPs do not.
The IPs travel agreater distance than the OPs do.
The OPs’ orbitsare longer than the IPs’ orbits.
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Largest planet in the solarsystem.
Mars
Uranus
Jupiter
Earth
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Axis is tilted so far that,compared to other planets, it rotates on its side.
Venus
Earth
Mars
Uranus
23
Atmosphere is made up of mostly carbondioxide; lava flows from its more than 1000 volcanoes.
Mars
Earth
Mercury
Venus
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The smallest planet;surface is filled with craters; closest planet to the sun.
Mercury
Earth
Mars
Venus
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Which of these statementsabout Venus and Mars is TRUE?
They both have a largesolid core.
Their surfaces are coveredwith water.
Their orbits are the samesize.
They have the same number of moons.
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Only planet known to haveabundant liquid water which helps maintain livable temperatures.
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
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Chunk of frozen gases,rock, ice, and dust orbiting the sun
Moon
Asteroid
Dwarf Planet
Comet
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Second largest planet;thousands of rings made up of ice and rock around it.
Neptune
Mercury
Saturn
Venus
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Known as the “Red Planet”and can sometimes be seen in the night sky
Mercury
Neptune
Mars
Earth
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Which of thesecharacteristics separates the outer planets from the inner planets?
The outer planets havesmaller diameters.
The outer planets havehigher densities.
The outer planets have manymoons orbiting them.
The outer planets orbit ina different direction.
