Our Solar System Part One - Quiz
  • 1. Which is a tool that astronomers use?
A) stethaschopenhagen
B) moon
C) optical telescope
D) hammer
  • 2. Which is a tool that astronomers use?
A) porsle sight
B) steth seeker
C) radio telescope
D) optical probe
  • 3. The optical teleschope was invented about how long ago?
A) 100 years ago
B) 200 years ago
C) 300 years ago
D) 400 years ago
  • 4. A radio teleschope collects what?
A) music
B) pictures of outerspace.
C) radio waves
D) sound waves
  • 5. What is something doing when it circles another object? It is.....
A) orbiting
B) circling
C) rotating
D) day
  • 6. What is a force that pulls objects to each other?
A) rotate
B) solar sytem
C) orbit
D) gravity
  • 7. What is the time that it takes the Earth to circle the sun once?
A) year
B) day
  • 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) nine
B) 365 days
C) eight
D) 10 (counting the sun)
  • 10. Every time the Earth orbits the sun, one _________ goes by
A) month
B) day
C) year
D) week
  • 11. Which planet is closest to the sun?
A) Pluto
B) Mercury
C) Earth
D) Venus
  • 12. Which planet is the biggest?
A) Mercury
B) Sun
C) Jupiter
D) Earth
  • 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) We haven't yet.
C) 1996
D) 1969
  • 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) 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) full
B) crescent
C) Gibbious
D) crater
  • 19. If Earth were the size of a basketball, the moon would be about the size of a ________________.
A) balloon
B) tennis ball
C) pinpong ball
D) soccerball
  • 20. The most common landforms on the moon are__________.
A) mountians
B) rocks
C) craters
D) lakes
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