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Question	Answer
An electric current is the continuous flow of neutrons.	false
An electric current is the continuous flow of electrons	true
An electric current is the continuous flow of protons	false
Electricity can flow through a closed circuit	true
Electricity can flow through a open circuit	false
Rubber, wood, and metals are insulators	false
Rubber, wood, and plastic are insulators	true
You have to get out of the pool when a storm is coming because water is a conductor	true
You have to get out of the pool when a storm is coming because water is an insulator	false
A series circuit has only one path for electricity to flow	true
A series circuit has more than one path for electricity to flow	false
Christmas lights are usually a parallel circuit, that way if one light goes out, they don’t all go out	true
You can increase the strength of an electromagnet by decreasing the number of time you wrap the wire around the iron nail	false
Christmas lights are usually a series circuit, that way if one light goes out, they don’t all go out	false
You can increase the strength of an electromagnet by increasing the number of time you wrap the wire around the iron nail	true
An electromagnet will not pick things up if the electric current is not flowing through the wire	true
Ben Franklin invented the light bulb	false
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb	true
Ben Franklin realized that lightning was a form of current electricity	false
Ben Franklin realized that lightning was a form of static electricity	true
Michael Faraday worked with electromagnets	true
Michael Faraday worked with lightning rods	false
Michael Faraday made the first electrical generator	true
Michael Faraday helped improve the light bulb	false
A rotation means to move in a circle around something	false
The earth rotates around the sun	false
The earth revolves around the sun	true
The moon rotates around the earth	false
The moon revolves around earth	true
Rotation means one full spin of an object on it’s axis	true
The earth makes one full rotation every 365 days	false
The earth makes one full rotation every 24 hours	true
The earth makes one full revolution around the sun every 365 days	true
The earth makes one full revolution around the sun every 24 hours	false
The moon makes one rotation about every month	false
The moon makes one revolution around the earth about once a month	true
The tilt of the moon on its axis causes the seasons	false
The tilt of the sun on its axis causes the seasons	false
The tilt of the earth on its axis causes the seasons	true
When our part of the earth is tilted toward the sun, we are having winter	false
When our part of the earth is tilted toward the sun, we are having summer	true
When our part of the earth is tilted away from the sun we are having winter	true
When our part of the earth is titled away from the sun we are having summer	false
The sun is an average-sized yellow star	true
The sun is an extra-large red star	false
The sun is about 5 times the diameter of the earth	false
The sun is about 50 times the diameter of the earth	false
The sun is about 110 times the diameter of the earth	true
The sun is about 4.6 million years old	false
The sun is about 4.6 billion years old	true
The moon is a satellite of the earth	true
The earth is a satellite of the moon	false
The moon’s diameter is about two times the earth’s diameter	false
The moon’s diameter is about ¼ earth’s diameter	true
The moon is gaseous, like the gas giants	false
The moon is rocky	true
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher who believed the sun was the center of the solar system	false
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher who believed the earth was the center of the solar system	true
Ptolemy was an ancient Greek philosopher who believed the sun was the center of the solar system	false
Galileo was an ancient Greek philosopher who believed the sun was the center of the solar system	false
Ptolemy was an Egyptian astronomer that believed that the sun was the center of the solar system	false
Ptolemy was an Egyptian astronomer that believed that the earth was the center of the solar system	true
Copernicus was a Polish astronomer that believed that the earth was the center of the solar system	false
Copernicus was a Polish astronomer that believed that the sun was the center of the solar system	true
Galieo was an Italian astronomer that used the newly invented microscope to prove that the sun was the center of the solar system	false
Galieo was an Italian astronomer that used the newly invented telescope to prove that the sun was the center of the solar system	true
Galieo was an Italian astronomer that used the newly invented telescope to prove that the earth was the center of the solar system	false
The moon gets bigger as the month goes on	false
The moon gets smaller as the month goes on	false
When no moon is visible in the sky, we call it a new moon	true
The moon is not in the sky when it is a new moon	false
The period when the moon appears to be getting larger in the sky is called waxing	true
The period when the moon appears to be getting larger in the sky is called waning	false
The period when the moon appears to be getting smaller in the sky is called waxing	false
The period when the moon appears to be getting smaller in the sky is called waning	true
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are the gas giants	false
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are the terrestrial planets	true
Terrestrial means gaseous	false
Terrestrial means rocky	true
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are gas giants	true
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are the terrestrial planets	false
My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nachos is a way to remember the order of the planets from the sun out	true
My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nachos is a way to remember the planets in order of their size	false
Just Sing Until Noon, Every Voice Makes Music is a way to remember the order of the planets from the sun out	false
Just Sing Until Noon, Every Voice Makes Music is a way to remember the order of the planets by their size	true
Jealous Sisters Usually Never Eat Very Many Marshmallows could help remember the order of the planets from the sun out	false
Jealous Sisters Usually Never Eat Very Many Marshmallows could help remember the order of the planets from largest to smallest	true
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have rings	true
Pluto is considered a “dwarf planet”	true
The moon revolves around the earth about once every 29 days	true
Locations closet to the equator stay hot or warm all year long	true
Locations closet to the equator have season like Virginia	false
The earth is one of eight planets that revolve around the sun	true
The earth is the fourth planet from the sun	false
The earth is the third planet from the sun	true
The earth is one of five terrestrial inner planets	false
The earth is one of four terrestrial inner planets	true
The reason earth can support life is because of carbon dioxide and magma	false
The reason earth can support life is because of oxygen and water	true
The surface of the moon is rocky with craters and mountains	true
The moon has an atmosphere like earth	false
The sun is very hot and made of iron and nickel	false
The sun is very hot and made of hydrogen and helium	true
Our solar system is part of the Milky Way Galaxy	true
Our solar system is part of the Three Muskateers Galaxy	false
The Nasa Apollo missions sent astronauts to Mars	false
The Nasa Apollo missions sent astronauts to the moon	true
Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon	true

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