Solar System Quiz

Write the correct answer in the blank.

earth
1. What is the 3rd planet from the sun?

the sun
2. What is the largest body in our solar system?

4
3. How many inner planets are there?

4
4. How many outer planets are there?

our moon
5. What effects Earth's tides?

6. What is the force that keeps planets in orbit around the sun and governs the
Gravity
rest of the motion in the solar system?

7. What is the major source of energy for phenomena on the earth's surface,
such as growth of plants, winds, ocean currents, and the water cycle
the sun

8. what results from variations in the amount of the sun's energy hitting the
surface, due to the tilt of the earth's rotation on its axis and the length of the
the seasons
day?

Pluto
9. What used to be the 9th planet?

craters, plains, mountains

10. What are 3 physical features of the moon?