Solar System Question Preview (ID: 62251)

a) empty space

b) asteroid socks

c) asteroid belt

d) comets

a) All of the above

b) Comets are made from rock and frozen ice; meteors are made from rock.

c) Most comets are found outsided the solar system and meteors are found within

d) Meteors can burn up as they enter a planets atmosphere and comets rarely enter a planet’s atmosphere

a) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

b) Mars, Earth, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, Mars

c) Mars, Venus, Earth, Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus

d) Venus, Saturn, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus

a) solar flares

b) hotter spots on the Sun

c) dark, cool spots on the Sun

d) rocks

a) The tug or pull of two (or more) objects on each other. Caused by the way space curves around matter.

b) Huge looping eruptions of gas near sunspots.

c) An object traveling around another object in an orbit.

d) A region in space where gravity is so powerful that it traps light and anything else that gets too close.

a) glowing cloud of gas that arches over the sun's surface

b) violent, explosive release of solar energy

c) colored light produced when charged particles from the solar wind react with Earth's upper atmosphere

d) cooler, dark areas of the photosphere of the sun

a) the space between planets

b) atmosphere of the outer planets

c) Ooart cloud

d) the Sun

a) The fusion of combining two or more lighter atoms into a larger one.

b) The splitting of one larger atom to two smaller ones.

c)

d)

a) Nuclear Fusion

b) Nuclear Fission

c) Convection

d) Radiation

a) Galileo

b) Brahe

c) Newton

d) Copernicus

a) Kepler

b) Brahe

c) Hubble

d) Aristotle

a) heliocentric

b) geocentric

c) eccentric

d) Beyonce

a) Sun centered

b) Earth centered

c) Moon centered

d) All of the above

a) Geocentric Theory

b) Scientific Method

c) Heliocentric Theory

d) Helium

a) Galileo

b) Kepler

c) Aristotle

d) Copernicus

a) Venus has a thin atmosphere and solar energy reaches the surface easily.

b) The thick atmosphere of Venus reflects most incoming solar energy back into space.

c) Carbon dioxide in Venus’s atmosphere traps solar energy that reaches Venus’s surface.

d) Energy from within Venus is transferred to the surface.

a) Poseidon

b) Jupiter

c) Neptune

d) Apollo

a) the planet’s polar ice

b) the planet’s breathable air

c) the planet’s red color

d) the reactivation of the planet’s volcanoes

a) It is the only planet that does not have people living on it.

b) It is the only planet with liquid water.

c) It is the only planet that does not spin around the sun.

d) It is the only planet that spins on its side.

a) balls of ice and dust

b) man-made space craft

c) large space rocks

d) none of the above