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Grade 8 Inner Planets
Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
  1. Jupiter
  2. Mars
  3. Neptune
Grade 8 Planetary Motion
During a solar eclipse, the shadow of                 falls on                .
  1. Earth; the Sun
  2. the Sun; Earth
  3. Earth; the Moon
  4. the Moon; Earth
Grade 8 Planetary Motion
Earth                 on its axis once every 24 hours.
  1. revolves
  2. rotates
  3. flips
  4. reverses
Grade 8 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
This is a "dirty snowball" made of dust and ice.
  1. comet
  2. meteor
  3. asteroid
  4. meteorite
Grade 8 Planetary Motion
During a lunar eclipse,
  1. Earth casts a shadow on the Moon.
  2. the Moon casts a shadow on Earth.
Grade 8 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Large bits of dust and ice that circled the solar nebula is called                .
  1. Protoplanets
  2. Planets
  3. Planetesimals
  4. Protons
Grade 8 Sun
The Sun's surface exists in what state of matter?
  1. plasma
  2. solid
  3. liquid
  4. gas
Grade 8 Universe
What galaxy shape is the Milky Way?
  1. irregular
  2. lenticular
  3. barred spiral
  4. elliptical
Grade 8 Stars
If a star is massive, it is most likely to have
  1. a longer life span than a less massive star.
  2. a shorter life span than a less massive star.
  3. a similar life span to a less massive star.
Grade 8 The Moon
Locate Tycho on the map of the Moon. Tycho is most likely                     .
Map of the Moon
  1. a dried ocean
  2. an ancient crater
  3. an extinct volcano
  4. a weathered mountain
Grade 8 Stars
A plot of surface temperatures of stars against their absolute magnitude is called
  1. an H-R diagram.
  2. a stellar chart.
  3. a constellation map.
  4. a spectrum.
Grade 8 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Most dwarf planets in our solar system are found in the Kuiper belt.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 8 Space Exploration
The first person to view the Moon using a telescope was
  1. Galileo.
  2. Copernicus.
  3. Newton.
  4. Armstrong.
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