Comets,Asteroids,Meteors,Meteorites
Which celestial body is known as a “dirty snowball”?
A Comet
B Meteorite
C Meteor
D Asteroid
What is comet ?
Which planet is known as Earth’s twin?
A Mars
B Venus
C Mercury
D Jupiter
What is Venus ?
What is the name of the larger, lighter part of the moon’s shadow?
A Ellipse
B Umbra
C Penumbra
D Orbit
What is Penumbra?
What season is the Northern Hemisphere experiencing if it is tilted towards the sun?
A.Summer
B.Winter
C.Fall
D.Spring
What is summer?
One factor that keeps Earth in orbit around the sun is _____.
A magnetism
B gravity
C its tilted axis
D solar winds
What is gravity?
What is a streak of light that is produced by a meteoroid burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere?
A Comet
B Meteorite
C Asteroid
D Meteor
What is Meteor ?
Which planet is known as the “evening star”?
A Uranus
B Mars
C Saturn
D Venus
What is Venus?
What occurs at a full moon when the Earth is directly between the moon and the Sun?
A A lunar eclipse
B A solar eclipse
C A partial lunar eclipse
D A partial solar eclipse
What is a Solar eclipse?
Which planet, besides Earth, has ice caps at its poles?
A Neptune
B Mars
C Uranus
D Venus
What is Mars?
Which scientist believed that the Earth was at the center of the solar system and the orbits were circular shaped?
A Kepler
B Aristotle
C Copernicus
D Ptolemy
Who is Copernicus?
What is a chunk of rock or dust in space?
A Meteor
B Meteorite
C Comet
D Meteoroid
What is Meteorite ?
The asteroid belt lies between —
A Mars and Jupiter
B Saturn and Uranus
C Earth and Mars
D Jupiter and Saturn
What is Mars & Jupiter ?
What is the name of the dark, flat areas found on the surface of the moon?
A Plains
B Craters
C Seas
D Maria
What is Maria?
In what direction do most planets rotate?
A North to south
B South to north
C East to west
D West to east
What is West to East?
One complete rotation of the moon takes about one —
A hour
B day
C year
D month
What is one month?
A comet’s tail normally points —
A up
B toward the sun
C down
D away from the sun
What is Away from the sun?
Which planet rotates on its side at a 90° angle?
A Neptune
B Jupiter
C Uranus
D Saturn
What is Uranus ?
What is the name of the darkest, or cone-shaped, part of the moon’s shadow?
A Penumbra
B Elliptical
C Umbra
D Lunar eclipse
What is Umbra?
What causes the Earth to have seasons?
A The revolution of the Earth around the Sun
B The tilt of the Earth’s axis and the revolution of the Earth around the Sun
C The distance of the Earth from the Sun
D The tilt of the Earth’s axis
What is the tilt of the Earth’s axis and the revolution of the Earth around the Sun?
Which planet revolves the fastest around the Sun?
A Jupiter
B Mercury
C Earth
D Venus
What is Mercury?
which one caused the dinosaurs to go extinct?
A.Meteor
B.Asteroid
C.Meteorite
D.Comet
What is Asteroid?
Which planet rotates east to west, which is opposite from the other planets?
A Earth
B Jupiter
C Mercury
D Venus
What is Earth?
Which of the following best describes why the Moon orbits Earth?
A The winds generated on Earth by the energy of the Sun
B The distance the Moon and Earth are from the Sun
C The energy reflected from the surface of Earth
D The gravitational attraction between the Moon and Earth
What is the the gravitational attraction between the Moon and Earth?
Which of the following planets have one or more moons?(there is more than one)
A.Earth
B.Mars
C.Venus
D.Uranus
E.Mercury
F.Jupiter
What is Mars,Jupiter,And Neptune?
Identify the planets that are known as gas giants.(there is more than one)
A.Mercury
B.Mars
C.Jupiter
D.Uranus
E.Earth
F.Saturn
G.Neptune
H.Venus
What is Jupiter,Saturn,Uranus,And Neptune?