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A ___________is a celestial body that has a tail made of ice and gas vapors
a) comet
b) asteroid
c) moon
d) planet

Why is Venus's day longer than its year?
a) It rotates slower than it revolves
b) It rotates faster than it revolves
c) It does not rotate
d) It has a very tilted axis

During a solar eclipse there is always a ____________
a) New moon
b) full moon
c) 1st quarter moon
d) 3rd quarter moon

Describe the inner planets
a) small, rocky, close to sun
b) small, rocky, far from sun
c) Large, rocky, close to sun
d) small, gaseous, close to sun

What unit would you use to measure the distance to another star (not the sun)
a) Light years
b) astronomical units
c) miles
d) kilometers

During a lunar elcipse there is always a ____________.
a) full moon
b) new moon
c) 1st quarter moon
d) 3rd quarter moon

Your mass would _____________on the moon
a) stay the same
b) increase
c) decrease
d)

Your weight would _________on Jupiter
a) increase
b) decrease
c) stay the same
d)

Your weight would _________ on the moon
a) decrease
b) increase
c) stay the same
d)

The scientific term that best describes the overall shape of most of the orbits of objects in our solar system is ___________
a) elliptical
b) an arc
c) perfectly circular
d) nearly circular

__________ is when one object travels around another object
a) revolution
b) rotation
c) tilt
d) elliptical

How long does it take the Earth to revolve around the sun one time?
a) 365 days
b) 24 hours
c) 12 hours
d) 350 days

A spinning on Earth's axis is _________
a) rotation
b) revolution
c) tilt
d) elliptical

How long does it take the earth to rotate one time?
a) 24 hours
b) 365 days
c) 12 hours
d) 1 year

The northern hemisphere is pointed _______the sun in the summer
a) towards
b) away
c) both towards and away
d) neither towards or away

What is the correct order of the planets
a) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
b) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Neptune
c) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Uranus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune
d) Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Which planets are called the gas planets?
a) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
b) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
c) Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
d) all of the planets have an atmosphere and are gas planets

The northern hemisphere has longer hours of sunlight in _____
a) June
b) March
c) December
d) September

Which planet has the strongest amount of gravity?
a) Jupiter
b) Saturn
c) Neptune
d) Sun

The strength of gravity depends on an object's _______and distance between the objects.
a) mass
b) weight
c) color
d) volume

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