Grade 11 · Astronomy
This quiz helps revise “The solar system” in Astronomy for grade 11. It has 25 questions in five categories: Planets Up Close, Orbits and Laws, Small Bodies, Inside the Sun, Missions and Probes. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which pictured planet is the hottest because of its powerful greenhouse effect?
Which pictured planet has the most prominent ring system, made of particles of ice and rock?
Which pictured planet is…
In the gameWhich smallest planet orbits…
In the gameWhich pictured planet has…
In the gameWhat unit of length is approximately the average distance from Earth to the Sun?
What is the point in an orbit where a body is closest to the Sun called?
Who formulated the rule…
In the gameWhat are the five…
In the gameWhat orbital parameter is…
In the gameWhat region contains most known asteroids between the orbits of the fourth and fifth planets?
What is a small rocky or metallic body called while it is still traveling through space?
What region of icy…
In the gameWhich pictured dwarf planet…
In the gameWhat distant, nearly spherical…
In the gameWhat is the visible layer of the Sun, from which most visible light escapes?
What is the pictured outer atmosphere of the Sun, seen as a white crown during a total eclipse?
What process in the…
In the gameWhat is the continuous…
In the gameWhat is the phenomenon…
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Which pictured spacecraft became the first to explore Pluto up close in 2015?
Which spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter in 2016 to study its deep structure and atmosphere?
Which spacecraft is the…
In the gameWhich pictured mission delivered…
In the gameWhich pictured mission struck…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.