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Which does not belong in this sequence? Ans: E. The black dot is moving one corner clockwise at each stage and the white dot is moving one corner anti-clockwise at each stage. A’s number is half as much again as E’s.
Answer. Explanation: silk is the only one in the following which is natural fibres all others are synthetic fibers.
Carbohydrates does not belong to lipids while oil, fats and waxes belongs to lipids. Carbohydrates have molecular formula Cn(H2O)n where n is 3 or more than 3, while lipids are compounds that are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents.
Satellite. The correct answer is option (b). Explanation: Our solar system is a part of the Milky Way galaxy, which consists of planets, asteroids and satellites. So, it is incorrect to say that any galaxy is a part of the solar system.
Notes: Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with largest number of satellites. Saturn has at least 82 satellites, while Jupiter has 79 satellites.
Answer: Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Earth other than the Sun. It is 4.2 light-years away – that’s 24.9 trillion miles!
Jupiter is the largest planet….Stars and the Solar System Class 8 MCQs Questions with Answers.
Column A | Column B |
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(iv) Alpha Centauri | (b) Star |
(v) INSAT 3E | (c) Artificial satellites |
(vi) Ursa major | (d) A constellation |
(vii) Planet | (f) Neptune |
Venus, which can be seen with the unaided eye from Earth, is the brightest planet in our Solar System. Venus was given the nickname evening star and morning star because of its bright, consistent presence.
According to NASA officail website: Jupiter has now 79 moons. The most of any planet in our Solar System.
Venus, the second planet from the sun, is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty and is the only planet named after a female. Venus may have been named after the most beautiful deity of the pantheon because it shone the brightest among the five planets known to ancient astronomers.
Mercury
Venus
Mercury’s orbit averages 35,980,000 miles from the Sun and lasts roughly 87 days on Earth. 55 Cancri e is 3,532,320 miles from its star (more than 30,000,000 miles closer than Mercury’s orbit to the Sun), and makes a full orbit in around 18 hours.
18 hours
55 Cancri e is a super-Earth — about twice our planet’s size — that zooms around its star in 18 days. It has a surface temperature of nearly 4,900 degrees Fahrenheit (2,700 degrees Celsius). For a while it was dubbed the “diamond planet” because scientists suggested that it was composed of diamonds and graphite.
Since 1995, when Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the Observatoire de Geneve, discovered the first planet orbiting another star like the Sun, over two hundred more extrasolar planets have been found in more than 170 solar systems outside our own.