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What planet spins sideways on its axis?
a) Uranus
b) Venus
c) Saturn
d) Mars

What planet has four Galilean Moons?
a) Saturn
b) Jupiter
c) Neptune
d) Mercury

Which planet has the most gravity?
a) Uranus
b) Earth
c) Saturn
d) Jupiter

What planet has no atmosphere?
a) Mercury
b) Earth
c) Venus
d) Uranus

Planets that have no solid surface, low density, longer revolutions, high mass
a) Terrestrial Planets
b) Jupiter and Saturn only
c) Gas Giants
d) The first three planets

What is another name for Gas Giants?
a) Terrestrial Planets
b) Inner Planets
c) Jovian Planets
d) Juliet Planets

What keeps the planets from flying out of the galaxy?
a) Friction
b) Gravity
c) Volume
d) Mass

Earth's Twin
a) Venus
b) Neptune
c) Mars
d) Uranus

Where are most comets located?
a) Care Bear Cloud
b) Between Mercury and Venus
c) Asteroid Belt
d) Oort Cloud

What was the name of the first artificial satellite?
a) Spuds 1
b) Sputnik 1
c) Challenger 1
d) Freedom 7

Seasons on Earth are a result of.....
a) Earth's rotation
b) Earth's tilt on its axis and revolution.
c) Earth's revolution only
d) Earth's size

Which describes terrestrial planets?
a) solid/rocky, dense, slow rotation, low mass
b) solid/rocky, low density, fast rotation, low mass
c) gas surface, dense, slow rotation, low mass
d) solid/rocky, dense, fast rotation, high mass

Fragments of space material that land on Earth's surface
a) meteors
b) meteroids
c) meteorites
d) asteroids

Large body of frozen ice and rock that travels towards the center of the solar system
a) meteor
b) asteroid
c) meteorite
d) comet

What is the difference in a command module and a lunar module?
a) A command module actually lands on the moon.
b) A lunar module actually lands on the moon.
c) A lunar module cannot return to Earth.
d) A command module cannot return to Earth.

What is the only natural satellite of Earth?
a) the moon
b) stars
c) Mars
d) Earth does not have a natural satellite.

Who was the first man in space? Where was he from?
a) John Glenn; Soviet Union
b) Yuri Gagarin; China
c) Yuri Gagarin; USA
d) Yuri Gagarin; Soviet Union

What is the relationship between mass and gravity?
a) Greater the mass, lesser the gravity
b) Greater the mass, greater the gravity
c) Lesser the mass, greater the gravity
d)

What year did Apollo 11 launch?
a) 1969
b) 1987
c) 1967
d) 1950

What astronaut did not set foot on the moon?
a) Buzz Aldrin
b) Neil Armstrong
c) Michael Collins
d) No one set foot on the moon.

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