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Solar System vocab quiz
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What is the phase of the EARTH (as seen from the Moon) during a total lunar eclipse?
Full
New
Quarter
None of these
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What's going on here?
lunar formation
sun formation
comet formation
earth formation
3
Why are craters so rare on Earth?
The atmosphere burns up meteors before they hit
Plate tectonics eat them
Weather wears them away
All of these
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What's going on here?
Rotation
Revolution
Resuscitation
Respiration
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What is this?
kuiper belt
oort cloud
protoplanetary disc
Solar nebula
6
Geocentric means
Earth goes around the sun
Sun goes around the Earth
Earth is on the back of a turtle
Earth is flat
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Why is this happening?
Eclipse
Ellipse
Eccentric
Ecliptic
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What is in the Oort cloud?
comets
asteroids
dwarf planets
gas giants
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What must be going on here?
Total Solar eclipse
Conjunction
Lunar eclipse
Partial solar eclipse
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Which of these is the BEST reason why the Moon has such extreme day/night temperatures?
the moon rotates slowly
The moon gets reflected heat from the Earth
The moon has no (or a very thin) atmosphere
None of these
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What causes the tides?
both
neither
Sun's gravity
Moon's gravity
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What's going on here?
Rotation
Respiration
Resuscitation
Revolution
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Which of these is NOT part of the solar system?
Moon
Planets
Stars
Sun
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What's going on here?
adoption
accumulation
acceleration
accretion
