Interesting And Unknown Facts About Solar System! Trivia Quiz
43 Questions
| Total Attempts: 160
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Questions and Answers
- 1.A comet is a meteoroid that strikes Earth.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.A large, blue-green, gaseous planet similar to Uranus is Neptune.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.The inner planets are Pluto, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.A large, gaseous planet with the lowest density and at least 47 moons is Saturn
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.The inner 4 planets include Mars, Earth, Venus, and Mercury.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.The gas planet with the lowest density and hundreds of thin rings is ____________.
- A.
Jupiter
- B.
Saturn
- C.
Uranus
- D.
Neptune
- 7.Johannes Kepler discovered that the orbits of the planets are _____________.
- A.
Parabolic
- B.
Circular
- C.
Elliptical
- D.
Spherical
- 8.The second planet from the sun that is very hot and has sulfuric acid clouds is __________.
- A.
Mars
- B.
Venus
- C.
Mercury
- D.
Earth
- 9.One of the gas giants, _________, has an axis of rotation nearly parallel to the plane of its orbit.
- A.
Jupiter
- B.
Uranus
- C.
Mercury
- D.
Earth
- 10.Two planets with similar mass and size are _______.
- A.
Mercury and Jupiter
- B.
Saturn and Uranus
- C.
Earth and Pluto
- D.
Venus and Earth
- 11.The planet that averages 150 million km (93,000,000 miles) or one AU, from the Sun is _____.
- A.
Mars
- B.
Jupiter
- C.
Mercury
- D.
Earth
- 12.______________ is the largest moon in the solar system.
- A.
Callisto
- B.
Ganymede
- C.
Earth's Moon
- D.
Io
- 13.The largest known volcano in the solar system is an extinct volcano known as Olympus Mons found on the planet ________.
- A.
Mars
- B.
Jupiter
- C.
Mercury
- D.
Venus
- 14.The planet closest planet to the Sun is __________.
- A.
Mars
- B.
Venus
- C.
Mercury
- D.
Jupiter
- 15.The planet that appears reddish-yellow due to iron oxide in its rocks is ____________.
- A.
Mercury
- B.
Jupiter
- C.
Uranus
- D.
Mars
- 16.The largest of _____________ moons, Titan, is larger than the planet Mercury
- A.
Neptune's
- B.
Pluto's
- C.
Uranus's
- D.
Saturn's
- 17.At times, the planet _________ is actually the farthest planet from the Sun.
- A.
Uranus
- B.
Saturn
- C.
Neptune
- D.
Jupiter
- 18.The Great Red Spot, a continuous storm, is located on the planet__________.
- A.
Saturn
- B.
Uranus
- C.
Jupiter
- D.
Neptune
- 19.Methane gives ___________ their blue-green color.
- A.
Mars and Earth
- B.
Uranus and Neptune
- C.
Saturn and Jupiter
- D.
Neptune and Venus
- 20.The solid portion of a comet is called its _____________.
- A.
Coma
- B.
Core
- C.
Heart
- D.
Nucleus
- 21.A cloud of gases around the solid portion of a comet is known as the ____________.
- A.
Coma
- B.
Core
- C.
Heart
- D.
Nucleus
- 22.__________ are small pieces of rock moving through space.
- A.
Comets
- B.
Meteors
- C.
Meteoroids
- D.
Meteorites
- 23._________ published the Sun-centered model of the solar system in 1543.
- A.
Kepler
- B.
Magellan
- C.
Copernicus
- D.
Galileo
- 24.When small pieces of rock moving through space enter Earth's atmosphere and completely burn-up they are called __________.
- A.
Comets
- B.
Meteors
- C.
Meteorites
- D.
Asteroids
- 25.Pieces of rock that actually strike Earth's surface are called ____________.
- A.
Meteoroids
- B.
Comets
- C.
Meteors
- D.
Meteorites
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