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How many planets are in our solar system?

• 5

• 13

• 9

• 8

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What is the largest planet in our solar system?

• Saturn

• Neptune

• Jupiter

• Mars

They are sometimes called shooting stars

• interplanetary dust

• asteroids

• comets

• meteors

Sometimes I am called a "dirty snowball". I have a hydrogen cloud, coma, and a nucleus. I am invisible except when near the sun. What am I?

• Asteroid
• Star
• Meteor
• Comet

Moons orbit around __________

• Planets

• The sun

• Other moons

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

We are composed mainly of rock and metal.

• comets and stars
• stars and meteors
• asteroid and meteors
• comets and asteroid

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

A meteorite is DIFFERENT from a comet mainly because

• has a tail of ice and gas
• is found in orbit between Jupiter and Mars
• enters the Earth's atmoshere
• has a nucleus mad of rock and snow.

All stars begin as a __________?

• giant
• black hole
• white dwarf
• nebula

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor
• meteorite
• asteroid
• comet

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Galaxies are composed of (best answer)

• stars
• stars and gas
• stars, dust, and gas
• stars, dust, and gas held together by gravity