Our Solar System Part One
- 1. Which is a tool that astronomers use?
A) moon
B) stethaschopenhagen
C) optical telescope
D) hammer
- 2. Which is a tool that astronomers use?
A) optical probe
B) radio telescope
C) steth seeker
D) porsle sight
- 3. The optical teleschope was invented about how long ago?
A) 300 years ago
B) 400 years ago
C) 200 years ago
D) 100 years ago
- 4. A radio teleschope collects what?
A) radio waves
B) sound waves
C) music
D) pictures of outerspace.
- 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) gravity
B) solar sytem
C) rotate
D) orbit
- 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) 365 days
D) 10 (counting the sun)
- 10. Every time the Earth orbits the sun, one _________ goes by
A) month
B) week
C) day
D) year
- 11. Which planet is closest to the sun?
A) Pluto
B) Venus
C) Earth
D) Mercury
- 12. Which planet is the biggest?
A) Jupiter
B) Sun
C) Earth
D) Mercury
- 14. The solar system includes the planets that orbit _______.
A) the sun
B) moons
C) once a year
D) nine planets
- 15. We first landed on the moon in.....
A) 2008
B) 1969
C) 1996
D) We haven't yet.
- 16. How many phases ore there in a moon?
A) 4
B) 10
C) 8
- 17. It takes about one ___________ for the moon to orbit the Earth.
A) week
B) 366 days during a leap year
C) month
D) 24 hours
- 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) pinpong ball
C) tennis ball
D) balloon
- 20. The most common landforms on the moon are__________.
A) craters
B) rocks
C) lakes
D) mountians
|
Students who took this test also took :