PRE-TEST

DIRECTION : Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. The planets that has four small, dense, rocky planets that orbit closest to the sun.
a. Dwarf planets
b. Terrestrial planets
c. Gas Giant planet
d. Ice Giants planets
2. What are the four terrestrial planets that are closest to the sun?
a. Saturn, Uranus, Venus, and Mars
b. Earth, Jupiter, Mercury, and Neptune
c. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
d. Mars, Neptune, Saturn, and Uranus
3. What is the largest terrestrial planet?
a. Mars
b. Earth
c. Mercury
d. Venus
4. It has the thinnest atmosphere of the terrestrial planets.
a. Mercury
b. Venus
c. Earth
d. Mars
5. Why Earth considered as a special planet than the other terrestrial planets?
a. Because earth is the only planet in the solar system that has the combination of factors
needed to support life.
b. Because earth is a rocky, largest, and most massive among terrestrial planets.
c. It is the densest planet in the solar system.
d. It is the only planet whose surface is divided into tectonic plates.
6. A terrestrial planet that has clouds that rain sulfuric acid on the planet.
a. Mercury
b. Venus
c. Mars
d. Earth
7. It is the most geologically active of the terrestrial planets.
a. Venus
b. Earth
c. Mars
d. Mercury
8. Mercury has a distance of _______ from the sun.
a. 0.38 AU
b. 0.40 AU
c. 0.37 AU
d. 0.39 AU
9. It lies nearly halfway between the sun and earth.
 a. Earth
b. Mercury
c. Mars
d. Venus
10. It is the counterclockwise spin of a planet about its axis as seen from above the planet’s north pole.
a. Prograde rotation
b. Retrograde rotation
c. Earth’s rotation
d. Venus’s rotation

11. Unlike Earth, Mars’s atmosphere is composed mostly of?

a. Nitrogen
b. Oxygen
c. Carbon
d. Carbon Dioxide
12. Which planet has the highest surface temperature in the solar system?
a. Earth
b. Mars
c. Mercury
d. Venus
13. What characteristics of Venus’s atmosphere make the planet so harsh?
a. Surface temperatures on Venus are hotter than those on Earth.
b. Venus a very thick, toxic atmosphere and has a lot of carbon dioxide that traps a lot of
heat.
c. Temperatures average around 464˚C.
d. Venus has craters and volcanoes.
14. What is the period of rotation and revolution on earth?
a. 23 hours 56 minutes, 365.3 days
b. 24 hours 56 minutes, 365.3 days
c. 24 hours, 365.3 days
d. 23 hours 57 minutes, 365.4 days
15. Which planets revolves around the sun in less in time than it rotates around its axis?
a. Venus
b. Mars
c. Earth
d. Mercury
POST TEST
IDENTIFICATION
DIRECTION: Write the correct answer on the space provided.
1. What is the largest terrestrial planet? ________________.
2. What are the four terrestrial planets that are closest to the sun? ________________.
3. The planets that has four small, dense, rocky planets that orbit closest to the sun.
___________________.
4. What is the period of rotation and revolution on earth?_________________.
5. Which planets revolves around the sun in less in time than it rotates around its axis?
_____________________.
6. Which planet has very large dust storms? _________________.
A terrestrial planet that has clouds that rain sulfuric acid on the planet.______________.
8. It is the most geologically active of the terrestrial planets. ________________.
9. It is the counterclockwise spin of a planet about its axis as seen from above the planet’s north pole.
_________________.
10. Mercury has a distance of _______ from the sun.
11. It has the thinnest atmosphere of the terrestrial planets. _________________
12. It lies nearly halfway between the sun and earth. _______________.
13. Unlike Earth, Mars’s atmosphere is composed mostly of? ______________.
14. Which planet has the highest surface temperature in the solar system? _____________.
15. What characteristics of Venus’s atmosphere make the planet so harsh? ______________

ANSWER KEY:
PRE-TEST POST TEST
1. b 1. Earth
2. c 2. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
3. b 3. Terrestrial planets
4. d 4. 23 hours 56 minutes, 365.3 days
5. a 5. Mercury
6. b 6. Mars
7. b 7. Venus
8. d 8. Earth
9. b 9. Prograde Rotation
10. a 10. 0.39 AU
11. d 11. Mars
12. d 12. Mercury
13. b 13. Carbon dioxide
14. a 14. Venus
15. d 15. Toxic atmosphere and lots of carbon dioxide.

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