Solar System and Moon Quiz

Solar System

• The solar system includes the sun, everything that orbits it, including asteroids, comets, meteoroids, planets, and moons.
• Mercury is the smallest and closest planet to the sun.
• Venus is sometimes called the morning or evening star and is closest to Earth.
• Earth supports life and is often called the blue planet.
• Mars is known as the red planet because of its reddish-brown rocks and soil.
• Jupiter is the largest planet.
• Saturn is a large, but lightweight planet.
• Uranus is the only planet to rotate on its side.
• Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun.
• Asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter.

The Moon

• The moon is Earth's only natural satellite.
• The Moon orbits Earth.
• The Moon reflects sunlight; it doesn't produce its own light.

Definitions

• Orbit: The path of an object revolving around another object.
• Axis: An imaginary line around which an object spins.
• Rotation: The spinning of an object on its axis. Earth's rotation causes day and night.
• Revolution: The movement of one object around another object.

Facts

• Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon.
• Hazza Al Mansouri was the first UAE astronaut to travel to space.
• A mountain peak is the highest point of a mountain.
• River is a source of freshwater.
• Sea and ocean water is salty and undrinkable.

Additional Information

• Moon phases change as the Moon orbits Earth, because the part of the Moon lit by the sun changes. This results in different shapes of the moon as viewed from Earth.
• Earth completes one revolution around the sun and one spin on its axis each year.
• Without the sun, planets would float away and become cold and dark.