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PRETEST

Directions: Read the following statements and answer 16. Which statements describes the atmosphere of the
each. Shade the letters on the corresponding spaces in planets correctly?
the answer sheet
a. Venus is mostly carbon dioxide
b. Mercury is mostly nitrogen
c. Earth is mostly oxygen
_______1. The universe expansion occurred about how d. Saturn is mostly helium
many years ago?
17. Which planets would you be on if you weighs 2/3 less
a. 100 years c. 10 billion years
than you do on earth?
b. 100 billion years d. 1 million years
a. Uranus c. Venus
_______2. A system which is made up if the sun and b. Mars d. Jupiter
heavenly bodies that move around it is known as_____.
18. How moon is different from a planet?
a. Lunar system c. solar system a. a moon is smaller than a planet
b. Space d. galaxy b. a moon is less massive than any planet
c. a moon is in orbit around a planet
_______3. Heavenly bodies that revolve around the sun d. a moon is unable to have an atmosphere
are________.
19. What is a meteorite?
a. Orbits c. stars
a. a bright streak of light that passes through the earth’s
b. Planets d. galaxy
atmosphere.
______4. Natural satellites of planets are_____. b. a large cloud of gas and dust in space that is
beginning or ending of a star.
a. Moons c. spacecraft c. a piece of meteor that lands on earth after passing
b. Sun d. hovercrafts through the atmosphere
d. a group of stars that appear to make a pattern
______5. The term big bang refers to?

a. Ultimate fate of the universe 20. Which of the following does not orbit the sun?
b. Formation of the universe
c. Supernova explosion a. Earth c. comets
d. Origin of the universe b. Asteroids d. moon.

_____6. The following planets have rings except?

a. Jupiter c. Uranus
b. Saturn d. Mars

_____7. The correct ascending order of distance of

planets from the sun is?

a. Mars, EARTH, Jupiter, Saturn

b. Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
c. Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
d. Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn

_____8. Which among the planets is not a gas giant?

a. Venus c. Saturn
b. Neptune d. Uranus

____9. Earth is the only planet in the solar system that has?

a. Clouds b. ocean of water

b. A core c. an atmosphere

_____10. The leading explanation about how the universe

began is called.

a. Universal Theory c. milky way theory

b. Solar system Theory d. big bang theory

True or false: Shade A if the statement is True

Shade B, if the statement is False

11. Are the orbits of the planets on the same place?

12. In the solar system, are the planets known as the giant
planets also known as the outer planets?

13. The sun rotates around the earth.

14. The meteorites burn up in the atmosphere are also

called as shooting stars.

15. Jovian planets are terrestrial planets.