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Solar System review for 6th Graders (according to the UTAH state core)
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1
What is a meteorite?
a shooting star
a bit of rock in space
a small asteroid
a meteor that has hit the earth
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What has become a major barrier to sky watching through telescopes?
too many satellites
too many city lights
too many airplanes
iPads and Aps are way better
3
Which planet has the MOST moons (according to NASA today)?
Neptune
Saturn
Jupiter
Uranus
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Which is NOT a characteristic of Neptune?
has more moons than Uranus
Great Dark Spot is a storm
The farthest planet from the sun
The smallest gaseous giant
5
Where are asteroids found?
In the movies like "The Good Dinosaur" and "Deep Impact"
All over the Solar System
Nowhere in the Solar System
ONLY between Mars and Jupiter
6
What holds the planets in their orbits around the sun?
space glue called nebulae
the mass of the sun
the gravitational pull of all the planets
a massive black hole sucking it all in
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Which is NOT a reason why we couldn't live on Venus?
thick CRUSHING atmosphere
deadly ACID mist
killer LAVA flows
super hot
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What is an Astronomical Unit?
8 minutes at the speed of light
A very long way
The distance from the Sun to Earth
A unit used to measure stuff in space
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What is NOT a characteristic of Jupiter?
It has a ring system
Is a Jovian Planet
It's giant red storm is over 300 years old
It is nearly the size of the sun
10
Which is NOT a way early astronomers used to observe the night sky?
Hot air balloons
The planet movements
The constellations
Telescopes
11
What is NOT a reason it took Pluto over 85 years to be photographed?
No probe had been programed for a fly by
It is way out there
It was only a dwarf planet
the solar system is a big place
12
What is RIGHT with this model of the Solar System?
The planes are all in a line
The order of the planets from the sun
The distance between the planets
The size of the planets
13
If the sun disappeared, what would the solar system be like?
the same as it is now
All the planets would go spinning off into space
very different than it is now
Very dark and cold
14
How many planets are recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU)?
13 (8 plus five dwarfs)
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They still don't know
15
What is NOT true about a comet?
The tail always points away from the sun
They form out in the Kuiper Belt
They have head and a tail
The destroyed all the dinosaurs
16
What is a celestial object?
all the different objects that make up our universe
an exalted being
An angel
any object smaller than a planet
17
Which is NOT a reason that makes space travel difficult for people?
things are too far apart / takes too long
very dangerous
it is impossible to escape Earth's gravity
It cost a lot of money
18
What is NOT a characteristic of VENUS?
covered in craters, mountains, and volcanic lava flows
it is the 5th biggest planet
It is the deadly goddess of beautry
it's thick atmosphere traps heat so it is the hottest
19
What is NOT a tool that a modern astronomer has used to explore the solar system?
alien technologies
manned space exploration
a radio telescope
space probes
20
The closer the planet is to the sun, the faster is revolves!
False
True
21
Which is NOT a characteristic of Saturn?
It has a rocky surface
It has less mass than Earth
It is the second biggest planet
It has thousands of rings
22
What is the largest planet in the Solar System?
Uranus
Saturn
Mercury
Jupiter
23
How did we find out there are RING systems on all four Jovian Planets?
Aliens told us
The Hubble Space Telescope
Voyager Space Probe
Galileo saw them
24
What is NOT a characteristic of Mercury?
88 Earth Day Year
one moon
Rocky
nearest planet to sun
25
Why was PLUTO demoted to a dwarf planet?
it had too much ice on it
too many small planets were discovered
Eris was discovered
It had too many moons
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Which is NOT a characteristic of a DWARF Planet?
bigger than Pluto
be spherical in shape
great enough gravity to clear the area of space junk
orbit around the sun
27
Which planet doesn't have a moon?
Mars
Venus
Pluto
Earth
28
If you looked back at the Solar System from Pluto, what would the sun look like?
a barely visible star
a huge ball of burning gas
nothing, its too far away
a bright star
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Which is NOT a characteristic of MARS?
It has NO atmopshere
It has two moons that are thought to be captured asteroids
Rusty rocks cover the surface
Has polar ice caps of frozen water and carbon dioxide
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Which is NOT a characteristic of Uranus?
Methane gas causes it to appear blue in color
The fourth largest planet in the Solar System
It has an axial tilt
It has the second most rings of all the planets
