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Grade 8 Inner Planets
Planet Earth is about 4.5 billion years old.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 8 Sun
Huge reddish loops of gases on the Sun are called                .
  1. prominences
  2. solar flares
  3. solar wind
  4. sunspots
Grade 8 Inner Planets
These are the two possibilities that would happen after a supernova.
  1. white dwarf and neutron star
  2. neutron star and black hole
  3. white dwarf and red giant
  4. red giant and black hole
Grade 8 Inner Planets
What is the magnetosphere?
  1. glowing region in the atmosphere caused by charged particles.
  2. stream of charged particles flowing from the Sun.
  3. doughnut-shaped region 25,000 kilometers above Earth's surface.
  4. region of Earth's magnetic field shaped by the solar wind.
Grade 8 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
A meteoroid that has entered Earth's atmosphere.
  1. meteoroid
  2. meteorite
  3. asteroid
  4. meteor
Grade 8 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Which of the following distinguishes a planet from a dwarf planet?
  1. orbits the Sun
  2. large enough to form a round shape
  3. cleared similar objects from its orbit
  4. has gravity
Grade 8 Inner Planets
A star spends the majority of its life cycle as the                   .
  1. protostar
  2. main sequence star
  3. red giant
  4. white dwarf
Grade 8 Inner Planets
Which is NOT a rocky planet?
  1. Mercury
  2. Earth
  3. Mars
  4. Neptune
Grade 8 Inner Planets
Which planet would have the shortest orbit?
  1. Mercury
  2. Earth
  3. Jupiter
  4. Neptune
Grade 8 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
A meteorite is a meteoroid that reaches Earth's surface.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 8 Planetary Motion
What point in a planet's orbit is closest to the Sun?
  1. perihelion
  2. aphelion
  3. elliptical
  4. None of the above
Grade 8 Sun
The Sun's internal structure is broken up into what three zones?
  1. the core, the radiative zone, the convective zone
  2. the core, the helium zone, the convective zone
  3. the core, the radiative zone, the hydrogen zone
  4. the core, the helium zone, the hydrogen zone
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