Solar System

What is a planet?

• A large body of water.

• Another world

• A large body of rock or gas that orbits the sun.

• A moon of Saturn

A comet is visible in the sky only when it is close to

• the sun

• the Earth

• Mars

• Pluto

What is an orbit?

• The path an object takes as it moves around another object in space

• A giant circle

• The 3 moons around Earth

• A ball of gas

The solar system is the sun and objects that orbit around it?

• True

• False

Which of the these are the 4 inner planets?

• Mercury, Earth, Venus, and Pluto

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars

• Venus Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune

• Saturn Neptune, Pluto and Mercury

Which of these are the 5 outer planets?

• Pluto, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, and Mars

• Mars, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune

• Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, And Neptune

• Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto

An asteroid is

• a chunk of rock or metal that orbits the sun

• ice and dust

• The Sun and Earth's moons

• A giant storm on a planet

A comet is

• chunk of rock or metal

• A falling star

• a large ball of ice and dust that orbits the sun

• A dwarf planet

How many planets orbit our sun?

• 5

• 32

• 9

• 7

Asteroids and comets are NOT part of our solar system.

• True

• False