How Well Do You Know the Solar System?
NO DIDDY
Created 6/10/2024
Test your knowledge of the solar system and see how many correct answers you can get! Challenge yourself with this fun and educational quiz.
1. What is the main component of the Sun's energy production?
Fusion of hydrogen into helium
Combustion of hydrogen
Nuclear fission
Fusion of helium into carbon
2. Which planet is closest to the Sun?
3. Approximately how old is our Solar System?
2.5 billion years
3.6 billion years
4.6 billion years
5.6 billion years
4. Which of the following is a gas giant?
5. What percentage of the Solar System's mass is in the Sun?
6. Where is the asteroid belt located?
Between Earth and Mars
Between Mars and Jupiter
Between Jupiter and Saturn
Between Saturn and Uranus
7. Which is a dwarf planet?
Ganymede
Europa
Ceres
Phobos
8. The Kuiper Belt is located just outside the orbit of which planet?
9. What is the heliopause?
The boundary where the Sun's solar wind is halted
The atmosphere of the Sun
The path of a comet
The distance between Earth and Mars
10. Which star is closest to the Solar System?
Alpha Centauri
Proxima Centauri
Barnard's Star
Wolf 359
