Anmol's+quiz

__**Anmol's quiz **__

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 * ||  || **1.** **Earth rotates in about _ __hours.__** ||

Newton Copernicus Ptolemy Galileo ||
 * || **2.** **Who formulated the geocentric theory?** ||

Copernicus Galileo Ptolemy Kepler ||
 * || **3.** **Who formulated the heliocentric theory?** ||

24.5 degrees 23.5 degrees 12.7 degrees 17.5 degrees ||
 * || **4.** **What is the axial tilt of the Earth?** ||

9,655 7,904 12,756 6,542 ||
 * || **5.** **The Earth diameter is _ __kilometers?__** ||

None One Two Four ||
 * || **6.** **Earth has how many natural satellites visible to the naked eye?** ||

Giant land mass Pangaea Cambrian Triassic ||
 * || **7.** **What was the giant land mass called that existed some 200 million years ago?** ||

Seven One Six Eight ||
 * || **8.** **The Earth has how many continents?** ||

True False ||
 * || **9.** **Earth is the densest of all of the Sun's planets.** ||

93,000,000 149,597,000 9,300,000 1,495,970,000 ||
 * || **10.** **The Earth's average distance is kilometers from the Sun.** ||

fourth third second fifth ||
 * || **11.** **The Earth is the _ __planet from the Sun.__** ||

gas giant asteroid jovian terrestrial ||
 * || **12.** **The Earth is a _ __planet.__** ||

Oxygen and hydrogen Carbon dioxide and argon Oxygen and nitrogen Hydrogen and helium ||
 * || **13.** **Earth's atmosphere consists mostly of?** ||

Solar Lunar Transit Inferior conjunction ||
 * || **14.** **When the Earth is directly between the Sun and the Moon it is called a _ __eclipse.__** ||

24,000 109,600 12,000 67,000 ||
 * || **15.** **Earth is moving around the Sun at about miles per hour?** ||

True False ||
 * || **16.** **Earth's inner core is solid.** ||

Vredefort Ring Clearwater Lakes craters Barringer Crater Caloris basin ||
 * || **17.** **The largest known impact crater on the Earth is the _.** ||

K2 Everest McKinley Mauna Kea ||
 * || **18.** **The highest mountain on the Earth, measured conventionally, is .** ||

K2 Everest McKinley Mauna Kea ||
 * || **19.** **What is the second highest mountain on the Earth, measured conventionally?** ||

Puerto Rico trench Eurasia basin Java trench Marianas trench || || 1. The fourth planet from the sun is  Mars
 * || **20.** **The deepest depression on the Earth is the ___.** ||

Jupiter

Saturn 2. Mars is reddish in color due to  comets surrounding the planet

solar flares

oxides in the planet's crust 3. Mars extreme temperatures changes from heat to cold are due to its  rotating quickly on its axis

thin atmosphere

polar caps 4. The hot spots under the crust of Mars are thought to be  geysers

volcanic activity

hot springs 5. The surface of Mars appears to have been worn away due to  storms

cooling

lakes, rivers, etc. eroding the surface 6. The fact that the polar caps on Mars get bigger and smaller means that Mars is evidence of  global warming on Mars

seasons on Mars

meteor showers on Mars 7. The number of moons orbiting Mars is  one

two

three