Solar System Objects

What object is at the center of a solar system

• Planet
• Moon
• Asteroid
• Star

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Which object has moons orbiting it

• Star
• Comet
• Planet
• Asteroid

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

What do all of the outer planets have in common

• surfaces

• ability to have liquid water

• many moons

• shorter revolution times (years) than the inner planets

What do all of the inner planets have in common?

• rocky surfaces

• less than 24 hour rotations

• many moons

• large in size

What is the a comet?

• A ball of ice and dust with a highly elliptical orbit

• A large piece of rock in a section of the solar system that separates the inner and the outer planets

• A small piece of rock that lands on earth after entering our atmosphere

• A small planet that hasn't cleared it's orbital path

Which planets have the strongest gravitational pull and why?

• inner planets because they are larger

• inner planets because they are smaller

• outer planets because they are larger

• inner planets because they are smaller

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What is the correct order of the planets from the sun? 

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
• Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune. 
• Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. 

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What causes Meteoroids to burst into flames upon entering the Earth's Atmosphere?

• They are made out of flammable materials

• They cannot handle the pressure of Earth

• They do not burst into flames, they only reflect the Sun's light

• Friction from the Earths atmosphere

Small asteroid-like bodies that become the building blocks for the planets are called

• planetesimals
• comets
• meteoroids
• open clusters

Which Object Emits (makes) its own light:

• Sun
• Planet
• Moon
• Comet