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Fifth Grade (Grade 5) Astronomy Questions

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Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Which is a small piece of rock and metal that travels in space around the Sun?
  1. Nebulae
  2. Meteorite
  3. Meteoroid
  4. Planet
Grade 5 Inner Planets
Which of the following planets is second nearest to the Sun?
  1. Mars
  2. Earth
  3. Venus
  4. Mercury
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
What planet spins on its side?
  1. Jupiter
  2. Earth
  3. Uranus
  4. Saturn
Grade 5 Stars
Which of the following statements about stars is true?
  1. Smaller stars are always brighter.
  2. Two stars that are the same temperature are the same color.
  3. The smaller a star appears, the closer it is to Earth.
  4. Stars that are the same color are usually the same size.
Grade 5 Inner Planets
The inner planet farthest from the Sun is                .
  1. Mercury
  2. Venus
  3. Earth
  4. Mars
Grade 5 Outer Planets
Jupiter has a big red spot on it that is a storm the size of Pluto.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Solar System
What is a large, mostly round, object that orbits the Sun and doesn't have any objects orbiting in its path?
  1. Elliptical
  2. Dwarf Planet
  3. Planet
  4. Universe
Grade 5 Solar System
The Sun and all bodies that revolve around it make up the                solar system               .
Grade 5 Inner Planets
Which planet has the most volcanoes?
  1. Earth
  2. Venus
  3. Mars
  4. Mercury
Grade 5 Inner Planets
The first four planets from the Sun are
  1. Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter.
  2. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars.
  3. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
Grade 5 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
A frozen chunk of ice and dust with an elliptical orbit around the Sun is called a(n)                .
  1. comet
  2. meteoroid
  3. asteroid
  4. moon
Grade 5 Astronomy
What is astronomy?
  1. an imaginary line that runs through the atmosphere
  2. a group of objects in space that move around a central star
  3. a burning sphere of gases; for example, the Sun
  4. the study of space, stars, planets, and objects in the sky
Grade 5 The Moon
The Moon has weathering and erosion.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Space Exploration
How have models of the solar system become better over the years?
  1. People have guessed what the solar system looks like.
  2. Technology has allowed people to study the solar system better than before.
  3. The models have not improved.
Grade 5 Solar System
What is the same between Earth, the Sun, and the Moon?
  1. They all have liquid water on the surface.
  2. They all are about the same size.
  3. They are all in our solar system.
  4. All of above are true.
Grade 5 The Moon
The force of gravity on the Moon is about
  1. twice the force of gravity on Earth.
  2. one-sixth the force of gravity on Earth.
  3. one-twentieth the force of gravity on Earth.
  4. one-third the force of gravity on Earth.
Grade 5 Sun
The Sun looks so bright because it is located much                 Earth than other stars.
  1. closer to
  2. farther from
Grade 5 Outer Planets
Which planet is NOT an outer planet?
  1. Saturn
  2. Neptune
  3. Mercury
Grade 5 Sun
The Sun is                 million miles away from Earth.
  1. 103
  2. 23
  3. 93
  4. 3
Grade 5 Planetary Motion
Sir Isaac Newton's work in the late 1600s convinced people that the Sun, not Earth, was the center of the universe. What scientific term describes this idea?
  1. chaotic universe
  2. geocentric universe
  3. spontaneous universe
  4. heliocentric universe
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