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