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Questions
1. Which features are found on both Mars and Earth?
active volcanoes
impact craters preserved from early in the planets' histories
erosional features related to flowing water
oceans
2. Which planet is most similar to Earth in size and density?
Mercury
Venus
Uranus
Mars
3. What are planets discovered outside our solar system called?
asteroids
comets
moons
exoplanets
4. The sun belongs to which class of stars?
white dwarf
red giant
main sequence
black hole
5. What is used to determine the distances to the stars?
stellar parallax
fluorescence
stellar mass
emission nebulae
6. How is Pluto currently classified?
as a planet
as a moon
as a comet
as a dwarf planet
7. Which of these discoveries led to the modern view of the solar system regarding the orbits of the planets?
hyperbolas
circles
ellipses
parabolas
8. A star that has exhausted its supply of hydrogen is considered _____.
depleted
dead
eroded
mature
9. Which terrestrial planet has a surface landscape similar to that of the older areas of the Earth's moon?
Uranus
Venus
Mercury
Neptune
10. Which property of a star can be determined by its color?
mass
volume
surface temperature
stellar distance