- 1. How many inner planets are there?
A) four
B) six
C) five
D) three
- 2. The planet closest to the sun is......?
A) Earth
B) Mercury
C) Mars
D) Venus
- 3. This inner planet has two moons.
A) Mars
B) Mars
C) Venus
D) Earth
- 4. Which planet is known as the "Red Planet?"
A) Mars
B) Venus
C) Mars
D) Earth
- 5. Venus has yellow-white clouds of _________.
A) water
B) liquid
C) salt
D) acid
- 6. ______ is the only planet with life.
A) Earth
B) Mars
C) Earth
D) Venus
- 7. What planet had a storm of winds called the Great Red Spot?
A) Jupiter
B) Neptune
C) Saturn
D) Uranus
- 8. Which planet is the farthest from the sun?
A) Neptune
B) Mercury
C) Uranus
D) Pluto
- 9. ___________ has rings and 8 moons.
A) Jupiter
B) Uranus
C) Saturn
D) Neptune
- 10. Astronomers call most of the outer planets ________.
A) ring planets
B) gasses
C) giants
D) cold
A) Jupiter
B) Uranus
C) Saturn
D) Pluto
- 12. What planet has the most moons?
A) Jupiter
B) Uranus
C) Neptune
D) Saturn
- 13. What planet comes after Jupiter
A) Uranus
B) Neptune
C) Mars
D) Saturn
- 14. What are icy objects that orbit the sun in long paths shaped like ovals?
A) comets
B) meteoroids
C) asteroids
- 15. What are huge pieces of rock or metal that orbit the sun?
A) meteoroids
B) asteroids
C) comets
- 16. What are shooting stars?
A) comets
B) asteroids
C) meteors
- 17. What are meteors called with they enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up?
A) meteoroids
B) comets
C) asteroids
- 18. What planets is the asteroid belt located?
A) Jupiter and Mars
B) Jupiter and Saturn
C) Uranus and Pluto
D) Earth and Mars
- 19. Astromoers sometimes call ___________ "dirty snowballs."
A) comets
B) asteroids
C) meteors
- 20. When at meteoroid falls to the ground, it is called a ____________.
A) meteoroidite
B) meteorite
C) meteor
D) asteroid
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