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Basic questions about the solar system
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The person that discovered Uranus wanted to name it
Ice Cube
Georgian Sidus
Herscal
Pastel Blue
2
The smallest planet in our solar system is
Pluto
Earth
Mercury
Mars
3
The main asteroid belt in our Solar System lies between which two planets?
Neptune and Uranus
Jupiter and Saturn
Mars and Jupiter
Venus and Mercury
4
A day on Mercury takes how many Earth days?
12hrs
176 days
14 days
35 days
5
Venus is named after the God of...
Education
Love
War
Healing
6
The first planet to be discovered using a telescope was
Mars
Venus
Jupiter
Uranus
7
Pluto is a
Planetling
Dwarf planet
Asteroid
Baby planet
8
Saturn's rings are made up mostly of
ice and dust
small moons
asteroid belt
large rocks
9
Which planet is the largest in size?
Saturn
Jupiter
Neptune
Mars
10
The name of the galaxy we live in is called
The milkshake
The Solar System
The Milky Way
KG24
11
Jupiter has
the shortest day of any planet
a very slow rotation because of its size
the longest day because of its size
a storm that has been going for 350 years
12
The hottest planet in the Solar System is
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Earth
13
Mars is the
Is covered in red mud
Is bigger than Earth
Is the smallest planet in the Solar System
Second smallest planet in the Solar System
14
Pluto is a
a famous dog
a dwarf planet
small planet
in the Kuiper Belt
15
The sun is a
giant star
yellow dwarf star
large yellow rock
gold star
16
How many planets are there in our solar system?
6
7
8
5
17
The four planets closest to the sun are called the:
Close planets
Gas planets
Small planets
Terrestrial planets
18
Only one planet is not named after a god. Which one is it?
Earth
Neptune
Saturn
Mercury
19
How high is Olympus Mons?
8,000m
16,000m
22,000m
2000m
20
Tides occur because
of the gravitational pull of Mars
because Neptune is upset
of the gravitational pull of the moon
of the gravitational pull of the sun
21
The Gas Giants are different because:
They smell
The spin slower
The are the biggest planets
They are mostly made up of oxygen
22
Black holes are black because
the gravity sucks in even the light
we can't see what is there so just called them black holes
it is always night time
nothing is there
23
There are approximately how many moons in our Solar System?
25
180
200
60
24
A solar eclipse happens when
The moon moves between Earth and the sun
Earth moves behind the sun
The sun moves behind the moon
The moon moves behind Earth
25
Earth is sometimes called the
Red Planet
White Planet
Blue Planet
Green Planet
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Neptune's storms can have winds of up to
500 miles/hr
100 miles/hr
1500 miles/hr
1000 miles/hr
