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Pearson Realize 5th Grade Chapter 6 Test Review including Vocabulary Words.
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What is a constellation?
All 3 answers above.
Star patterns including The Little Dipper and Polaris
A group of stars that form a pattern.
Patterns of stars used to locate individual stars in the sky.
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What is a planet?
A large, round object that has cleared it's orbit.
A leafy, green, item in your garden.
A store where you can get a smoothie.
An icy ball with a tail of small particles.
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What is a meteorite?
A meteoroid when it hits Earth's atmosphere.
A small piece of rock moving in space.
The opposite of a meteorong.
A piece of a meteor that lands on Earth.
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What is an outer planet?
A planet outside of our solar system.
A planet with crust on the outside.
Any of the 4 planets in our solar system beyond Mars.
A planet that enjoys the outdoors.
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What is an asteroid belt?
The region between Mars & Jupiter where most asteroids orbit.
A feature the constellation Asteroid.
A solar fashion accessory.
A ring of asteroids encircling Saturn.
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What is a solar flare?
A feature of Venus' hot surface.
An item used to alert drivers of a roadside emergency.
An explosive eruption of waves and particles into space.
A welding tool.
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What can be described as "a shower of shooting stars".
a meteor shower
fireworks
a hail storm
satellites
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Which of these planets is most like Earth?
Jupiter
Venus
Neptune
Mars
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What is an inner planet?
A planet on the inside of the Milky Way galaxy.
A planet on the inernet, Y'all.
One of four rocky planets orbiting closest to the sun.
A planet inside of Jupiter.
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What is a space probe?
a rod carried by astronauts to stick into dark places.
a spacecraft that gathers data without a crew
a type of drone used to attack aliens.
a blunt-ended surgical instrument used for exploring
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What is an asteroid?
An Astronaut disease.
Small space rocks that have landed on the moon's surface.
A rocky mass up to several hundred km wide.
Minions of John Jacob Astor.
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What is an axis?
An elliptical orbit
A measurement between points on a circle that passes through its center.
An imaginary line around which an object spins.
A rod passing through the center of a wheel
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What do Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have in common?
They all appear to be similar to Earth.
They all are gaseous planets.
They all have rocky surfaces.
They all appear to be made of rock and ice.
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Which planet has a rocky surface?
Neptune
Saturn
Jupiter
Venus
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Which is true about planets and asteroids?
They have cleared their orbit.
They are round.
They have an atmosphere.
They revolve around the sun.
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What does Earth rotate around?
the moon
stars
an axis
the sun
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What is a dwarf planet?
a natural object that revolves around another planet.
a large , round object that hasn't cleared its orbit.
a planet from the Wizard of Oz.
a teeny, tiny speck of dust with a lint tail.
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What is a comet?
A frozen mass of different types of ice and dust.
A large, round object that revolves around a star.
A rocky mass, up to several hundred km wide.
A large round object that hasn't cleared its orbit.
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Which is an object in the solar system that is a frozen mass of ice and dust?
a comet
a planet
a moon
an asteroid
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What is a revolution? (in solar science)
One full orbit around the sun.
One full turn on its axis.
A 24hr period on Earth.
The West to East motion of the Earth's spin.
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What is an orbit?
A creature related to a Hobbit.
A brand of chewing gum.
One full turn on an axis.
The path of an object as it revolves around a star/planet/moon
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How does Earth's revolution around the sun cause seasons?
Earth's revolution causes cold wind storms at the Equator during winter.
Revolving on it's axis, Earth has different seasons.
The sun is blocked by the moon as Earth revolves.
With Earth's tilt, parts of Earth receive more or less direct sunlight.
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Which is NOT a layer of the sun?
chromosphere
corona
solar flare
photosphere
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Which choice below lists the correct order of the planets from the sun?
Mars, Venus, Earth, Saturn
Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
Earth, Mars, Venus, Jupiter
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What is a moon?
A large round of cheese in the sky.
Something a cow can jump over.
A self-generated light source in our night sky.
A natural object that revolves around a planet.
