Our Solar System

The length of a year on a planet is best explained by

• The planet rotating on its axis

• The Sun rotating on its axis

• The revolution around the Sun

• The seasons

Saturn is the only planet with a ring system.

• True

• False

What is the difference between comets and asteroids?

• Asteroids are rocky, comets are icy

• Comets are rocky, asteroids are icy

• Comets revolve around the earth, asteroids around the sun

• Asteroids travel further than comets.

Which best describes the terrestrial planets?

• Large, planetary rings

• Small, dense, rocky

• Rocky cores, close to sun, surface craters

• Made of helium and hydrogen

When Coach Rhone tied a string around a weight and swung it around showing the orbits, what did the string represent?

• Distance away from the planet

• Gravitational pull

• Electricity

• Radiation

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Which element makes up the most composition of the Sun?

• Helium

• Oxygen

• Hydrogen

• Carbon

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

The belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comets
• Asteroids
• Meteors
• Stars

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

They are sometimes called shooting stars

• interplanetary dust
• asteroids
• comets
• meteors

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

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.

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