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Our Solar System Part One
  • 1. Which is a tool that astronomers use?
A) moon
B) optical telescope
C) stethaschopenhagen
D) hammer
  • 2. Which is a tool that astronomers use?
A) steth seeker
B) radio telescope
C) porsle sight
D) optical probe
  • 3. The optical teleschope was invented about how long ago?
A) 300 years ago
B) 100 years ago
C) 200 years ago
D) 400 years ago
  • 4. A radio teleschope collects what?
A) pictures of outerspace.
B) music
C) radio waves
D) sound waves
  • 5. What is something doing when it circles another object? It is.....
A) day
B) circling
C) orbiting
D) rotating
  • 6. What is a force that pulls objects to each other?
A) rotate
B) orbit
C) gravity
D) solar sytem
  • 7. What is the time that it takes the Earth to circle the sun once?
A) day
B) year
  • 8. What is the time that it takes the Earth to spin around once?
A) year
B) day
  • 9. There are _________ planets in the solar system.
A) eight
B) nine
C) 10 (counting the sun)
D) 365 days
  • 10. Every time the Earth orbits the sun, one _________ goes by
A) day
B) month
C) week
D) year
  • 11. Which planet is closest to the sun?
A) Venus
B) Mercury
C) Pluto
D) Earth
  • 12. Which planet is the biggest?
A) Sun
B) Mercury
C) Earth
D) Jupiter
  • 13. The moon shines.
A) False
B) True
  • 14. The solar system includes the planets that orbit _______.
A) moons
B) once a year
C) nine planets
D) the sun
  • 15. We first landed on the moon in.....
A) 2008
B) 1996
C) 1969
D) We haven't yet.
  • 16. How many phases ore there in a moon?
A) 10
B) 8
C) 4
  • 17. It takes about one ___________ for the moon to orbit the Earth.
A) month
B) 24 hours
C) 366 days during a leap year
D) week
  • 18. When the moon looks like a thick eyelash it is called a _____________ moon.
A) Gibbious
B) crater
C) crescent
D) full
  • 19. If Earth were the size of a basketball, the moon would be about the size of a ________________.
A) soccerball
B) tennis ball
C) pinpong ball
D) balloon
  • 20. The most common landforms on the moon are__________.
A) lakes
B) mountians
C) rocks
D) craters
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