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Exploring Our Solar System
Test Description: Solar System
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) A round depression in the surface of a planet, moon, asteroid, or comet, caused by the impact of a meteoroid.
A
Meteoroids
B
Eclipse
C
Spring Tide
D
Crater
2) a chunk of rock that moves through the solar system
A
Penumbra
B
Asteroids
C
Ring
D
Meteoroids
3) the different shapes of the illuminated side of the moon as seen from Earth
A
Phases
B
Tides
C
Eclipse
D
Asteroid Belt
4) event that occurs when the shadow of one body in space, such as a planet or moon, falls on another Umbra the darkest part of a shadow
A
Oort Cloud
B
Eclipse
C
Nebula
D
Accretion
5) a region of the moon's shadow that surrounds the umbra and is less dark than the umbra
A
Eclipse
B
Protoplantary Disk
C
Penumbra
D
Asteroids
6) the regular rise and fall of water in the oceans
A
Meteoroids
B
Crater
C
Tides
D
Phases
7) a tide at the new or full moon when the change between daily high and low tides is the greatest
A
Neap Tide
B
Gas Giants
C
Spring Tide
D
Solar Nebula
8) a tide at the first or last quarter moon, when there is the least change between daily high or low tides
A
Eclipse
B
Neap Tide
C
Penumbra
D
Ring
9) the four planets closest to the sun (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars), which are similar in structure to Earth
A
Neap Tide
B
Planetesimals
C
Kuiper Belt
D
Terrestrial Planets
10) small, rocky solar system bodies, most of which are found orbiting the sun in a region between Mars and Jupiter
A
Umbra
B
Ring
C
Asteroids
D
Disk
11) region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where most asteroids in the solar system are found
A
Asteroid Belt
B
Crater
C
Meteoroids
D
Gas Giants
12) a large, massive planet (such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune) that is composed mainly of hydrogen and helium
A
Protoplantary Disk
B
Gas Giants
C
Solar Nebula
D
Kuiper Belt
13) a wide belt beyond Pluto's orbit where objects mostly made of ice and rock orbit the sun
A
Kuiper Belt
B
Terrestrial Planets
C
Asteroids
D
Spring Tide
14) thought to be a very sparse sphere of comets encircling the solar system out to a distance of about 50,000 AU
A
Penumbra
B
Oort Cloud
C
Asteroid Belt
D
Planetesimals
15) a cloud of dust and gas that can eventually collapse to form one or more stars with a planetary system
A
Solar Nebula
B
Meteoroids
C
Crater
D
Accretion
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