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Why is Pluto now a dwarf planet instead of our 9th planet?
a) He got into a fight with the sun.
b) He is in a lawsuit with Disney over the rights of the name, Pluto.
c) He had not cleared his orbital path of space debris.
d) He wanted to go play with the other dogs.

Giant cosmic snowballs made of gases, dust, and ice are?
a) asteroids
b) meteors
c) meteorites
d) comets

Which is a shooting star?
a) meteor
b) meteorite
c) meteroid
d) comet

This separates the inner and outer planets
a) Ceres
b) Pluto
c) Asteroid Belt
d) Meteor Belt

What is true about AUs?
a) AU's are easier to use than kilometers or miles because the distances in space are so great
b) AU's stand for Astronomical Units
c) Earth is 1 AU from the sun.
d) all of the above

The moon is a?
a) natural satellite
b) dwarf planet
c) asteroid
d) meteor

These planets are immense in size, have many moons, and support ring systems.
a) Terrestrial
b) Jovian
c) Dwarf
d) MInor

These planets are rather small, have little or no moons, have a rocky solid surface.
a) Terrestrial Planets
b) Jovian Planets
c) Dwarf Planets
d) Outer Planets

This invisible force helped to form the solar system and holds all the planets in orbit around the sun.
a) magnetism
b) gravity
c) radiation
d) diversity

The correct order of the planets in our solar system is?
a) Mercury, Venus Mars, Earth, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus and Saturn
b) Venus, Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
c) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
d) Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

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