- 1. _____________ is the largest terrestrial planet.
A) Earth
B) Saturn
C) Venus
D) Jupiter
- 2. The most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere is:
A) oxygen
B) argon
C) nitrogen
D) carbon dioxide
- 3. The largest ocean in the solar system is on Jupiter and made of:
A) carbon
B) hydrogen
C) water
D) oxygen
- 4. What is the density of water?
A) 1 g/mL
B) 5 g/mL
C) .01 g/mL
D) 10 g/mL
- 5. It takes Mercury ________ days to orbit the sun.
A) 88
B) 128
C) 26.4
D) 28
- 6. Due to its size, it is sometimes called Earth's twin:
A) Neptune
B) Uranus
C) Venus
D) Mars
- 7. This planet is known for appearing so spin sideways:
A) Saturn
B) Neptune
C) Jupiter
D) Uranus
- 8. A/An _________________ is a large body of air with similiar characteristics such as temperature and humidity.
A) prediction
B) cold front
C) warm front
D) air mass
- 9. The planet whose mass is close to 300 times that of Earth is:
A) Jupiter
B) Saturn
C) Neptune
D) Uranus
- 10. What is the shape of our galaxy?
A) circular
B) elliptical
C) horizontal
D) Spiral
- 11. What is a specific object that has broken off an asteroid and travels through space?
A) comet
B) mereorite
C) asterite
D) meteoroid
- 12. What type of star is considered cool and small?
A) red dwarf
B) blue dwarf
C) green dwarf
D) white dwarf
- 13. What is a factor that determines a star's brightness?
A) density
B) color
C) gas
- 14. What galaxy is closest to our own galaxy?
A) Comet Galaxy
B) Milkey Way
C) Andromeda
D) Black Eye Galaxy
- 15. Which planet has a thick atmosphere AND a low density?
A) Mars
B) Earth
C) Uranus
D) Venus
- 16. What is the object that is made up of frozen gas and has a visible tail, pointing away from the sun?
A) comet
B) asteroid
C) mereorite
D) meteor
- 17. What tool that is sent to investigate deep space and transmit their findings back to Earth?
A) comet
B) telescope
C) space probe
D) rover
- 18. What object looks like a streak of light in the sky but is a small chunk of rock passing through Earth's atmosphere?
A) asteroid
B) meteor
C) planet
D) comet
- 19. What is another way planets move in space other than revolve around the sun?
A) sideways
B) fly
C) Rotate on its axis
D) horizontally
- 20. The sun consists of _________% of the mass in our solar system.
A) 25
B) 50
C) 99
D) 62
- 21. This needs to be a complete answer for full credit. WHY do the planets orbit the sun?
- 22. How long does it take light to travel from the sunto the Earth?
A) 8 minutes
B) 8 years
C) 8 seconds
D) 8 hours
- 23. Earth is found in a region of space called the:
A) fun
B) terrestrial
C) habitable
- 24. The early astronomer that first observed the moons of Jupiter in 1610 was :
A) Da Vinci
B) Newton
C) Galileo
- 25. Originally, people thought that the sun revolved around the Earth. This is called:
A) geocentric
B) heliocentric
- 26. WHAT is an AU. You must have a definition and also include the distance it is.
- 27. Which two planets have the least moons?
A) Mercury and Venus
B) Earth and Mercury
C) Mercury and Neptune
D) Mars and Venus
- 28. What tool that is used to observe other galaxies that was put in space on April 24, 1990?
A) ISS
B) Starlink Satellites
C) Hubble Telescope
- 29. What is the name of galaxy that Mars belongs to?
A) Black Eye Galaxy
B) Andromeda
C) Milky Way
- 30. What planet has a feature known as the Great Dark Spot?
A) Saturn
B) Neptune
C) Jupiter
- 31. How does red giant compare to our sun, a red dwarf, and a blue dwarf?
A) Its the brightest
B) it is the farthest
C) it is the biggest
- 32. What medium yellow star that only seems huge because of its location compared to others?
A) Betelgeuse
B) Our Sun
C) Orion
- 33. What planet has the hottest in our solar system?
A) Venus
B) Mars
- 34. Tell me why, in at least two sentences why the hottest planet in our solar system is so hot. You will have to obviously list which one it it.
- 35. A/an____________ are large bodies of air with similiar characteristics such as temperature and humidity.
A) occluded front
B) air mass
C) lightning storm
D) cold front
- 36. Air masses are moved aroubd by _____________
A) air masses
B) cold fronts
C) prevailing winds
D) humidity
- 37. ____________ is the measure of how much water vapor is in the air.
A) meteorology
B) weather front
C) water vapor
D) humidity
- 38. Areas closer to the _________ are warmer because the sunlight is more direct.
A) ring of fire
B) equator
C) south pole
D) north pole
- 39. A ____________ happens when eruptions occur when the loops in sunspot regions suddenly connect.
A) Convection zone
B) Nuclear fusion
C) Solar wind
D) Solar flares
- 40. The layer of the sun's atmosphere that looks like a halo during an eclipse is:
A) core
B) corona
C) chromosphere
D) sunspot
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