Solar System Formation and Planets Quiz

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Where are the gas giants located in the Solar System?

  • Outer Solar System (correct)
  • Just outside Neptune's orbit
  • Inner Solar System
  • Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

Which planets are considered terrestrial in the Solar System?

  • Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
  • Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn
  • Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars (correct)
  • Earth, Mars, Uranus, Neptune

What is the main composition of the giant planets in the Solar System?

  • Molten lava
  • Rocks and metals
  • Gases and liquids (correct)
  • Ice and dust

Where is the majority of the Solar System's mass located?

<p>In the Sun (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which objects are part of the small Solar System bodies category?

<p>Asteroids, comets, meteoroids (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which word class is the largest in English?

<p>Nouns (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What indicates grammatical function for pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and articles in English?

<p>Saxon genitive or English possessive (-'s) (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In what way has Modern English departed from the inflectional case system of Indo-European?

<p>It has abandoned inflectional cases for analytic constructions (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which language feature does Modern English retain more strongly in personal pronouns than any other word class?

<p>Inflectional case (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a distinguishing characteristic of English nouns compared to nouns in many other Indo-European languages?

<p>They have no grammatical gender (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which word class is the second-largest in English?

<p>Pronouns (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the grammatical function indicated by in English for pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and articles?

<p>'Saxon genitive or English possessive' (-'s) (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has Modern English largely abandoned from Indo-European in favor of analytic constructions?

<p>Inflectional case system (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary distinguishing characteristic of English nouns compared to nouns in many other Indo-European languages?

<p>Inflectional case system (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What retains morphological case more strongly than any other word class in Modern English?

<p>Pronouns (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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