Unit 3 Earth and Space
Quiz by Dan Thornton
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- Q1A large round body that revolves around a starmoonplanetSunstar30s
- Q2A group of billions of stars, gas and dust held together by gravitystarsolar systemgalaxyplanet30s
- Q3What is one way all the inner planets are alike?large and made of rocklarge and made of gassmall and made of gassmall and made of rock30s
- Q4What is one way the outer planets are all alike?large and thick atmosphere of gasessmall and thick atmosphere of gasessmall and made of rocklarge and made of rock30s
- Q5Irregularly shaped rock and iron objects that orbit the sunplanetasteroiddwarf planetmoon30s
- Q6Which statement about inner planets is true?they are small, far from the Sun and have longer orbits than the outer planetsthey are small, closer to the Sun and have shorter orbits than the outer planetsthey are small, closer to the Sun and have longer orbits than the outer planets30s
- Q7Which statement about outer planets is true?They are large, made of gas, some have rings and many moonsThey are large, made of gas, have rings and many moonsThey are large, made of gas, have rings and have few moons30s
- Q8A chunk of frozen rock, ice and dust that have long orbits around the sunasteroiddwarf planetcometmoon30s
- Q9What kind of galaxy?barred spiral galaxyelliptical galaxyspiral galaxyirregular galaxy30s
- Q10A "shooting star" is a streak of light that briefly appears across the night sky. A shooting star is actually ____.a comet entering our atmospherea chunk of rock called a meteor entering our atmospherea star entering our atmosphere30s
- Q11To spin around on a pointrevolverotateorbit30s
- Q12What type of galaxy is our galaxy?spiralirregularelliptical30s
- Q13In order from the Sun, the inner planets are:Earth, Venus, Mars, MercuryMercury, Earth, Venus, MarsMercury, Venus, Earth, MarsMars, Earth, Venus, Mercury30s
- Q14In order from the Sun, the outer planets are:Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, JupiterJupiter, Saturn, Uranus, NeptuneJupiter, Neptune, Saturn, UranusJupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus30s
- Q15What happens in a day?The Earth rotates one timeThe Moon orbits the Earth one timeThe Earth orbits one timeThe Sun orbits the Earth one time30s
