Solar System Unit Review

Question 1

Sir Issac Newton discovered pluto.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

Blue giant stars die in a spectacular way called a black hole.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

Neptune is nicknamed the windiest planet.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

Earth rotates around the moon.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

Light cannot escape from a black hole.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Meteors are meteoroids that have survived traveling through the atmosphere and have hit the ground.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

We can see three of Saturn's rings from Earth using a telescope.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Mercury is nicknamed the most beautiful planet.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

There are more than 150 moon in the solar system.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

Black holes form from super giant or blue giant stars that have run out of fuel.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

There are 8 planets in our solar system.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

The outer planets are also called terrestrial planets.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

Red Dwarf stars are the most common, however, we cannot see many of them from earth.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

Gravity causes solar flares.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

Cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rocks, and dust are comets.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

The lunar month lasts 29 days.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Ganymede is the smallest moon in our solar system?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

The smallest natural satellite is called Deimos.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

Pluto orbits the sun in just 100 days.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

Our moon is called Luna.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

Jupiter has a permanent whirpool of storms called Jupiter's Stormy Spot.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 22

A spectrometer was used to measure the distance to Neptune.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

From Earth we can only see on side of the moon.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

Mercury is surrounded by rings made of ice.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 25

Mars is nicknamed the "Red Planet" because of a mineral on its surface.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

The Aurora Borealis can be seen in the Northern Hemisphere.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

Dwarf planets do not clear their neghborhoods.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

The solar system is made up of the only the sun and the planets.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

Earth is the fifth planet from the sun.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 30

The sun is a super giant star.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 31

Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

The sun is the center of the solar system.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

The moon phase in which we can see the most of the moon is called the new moon.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

The sun contains approximately 99.86% of the mass of the entire solar system.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

There is only one dwarf planet.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 36

Venus is the farthest planet from the sun.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 37

Venus us the hottest planet.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

The order of the planets is: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 39

Earth is the only planet to have an atmosphere with at least 21% oxygen.

Accepted Answer

True

Solar System Unit Review

Questions 39

Solar System Unit Review

Questions 39