Common Assessment Review

Common Assessment Review

Multiple Choice

What are the four inner planets?

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, the moon

Multiple Choice

What are the four outer planets?

• Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune

• Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune

Multiple Choice

What does the word "terrestrial" mean?

• Earth Like

• Gas planet

Characteristics of Inner Planets

All of the inner planets are solid, dense, rocky planets. The inner planets either do not have moons or have just one (Earth) or two (Mars). None of the inner planets have rings. Compared to the outer planets, the inner planets have shorter orbits around the Sun, but all the inner planets spin more slowly

Multiple Choice

Name some characteristics of the inner planets.

• Terrestrial, larger, few or no moons

• Terrestrial, smaller, few or no moons

• Gas, smaller, few or no moons

• Gas, larger, many moons

Multiple Choice

Which of the following fly through the atmosphere and eventually hit earth as meteorites?

• Comets

• Meteors

• Asteroids

Multiple Choice

Which of the following have a tail and are made up of ice, dust, and gases?

• Comets

• Meteors

• Asteroids

Multiple Choice

What do we call small, irregularly shaped chunks of rock that orbit the Sun and are much too small to be considered planets?

• Comets

• Meteors

• Asteroids

Multiple Choice

What is the disk-shaped region between Mars and Jupiter called?

• Meteor

• Meteoroid

• Comet

• Asteroid Belt

Multiple Choice

The asteroid belt is found between what two planets?

• Mars & Venus

• Venus & Earth

• Venus & Saturn

• Mars & Jupiter

Multiple Choice

What are the four gas giant planets?

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars

• Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune