Solar System Review

Outer Planets made mostly of gases

• Inner Planet

• Oort Cloud

• Terrestrial Planets

• Gas Giants

Giant, spinning storm on Jupiter

• Great Dark Spot

• Great Red Spot

• Great Dark Spot

• Red Storm

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Remains of meteoroids that strike the surface of a planet or moon

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

• Meteor

• Comet

A celestial body of ice, dust, and rock with an elongated and elliptical orbit

• Comet

• Meteor

• Meteorite

• Asteroid

This planet is often called the red planet. It is one of the closest planets to Earth. People wonder if there is life on this planet.Which planet is it?

• Mars

• Neptune

• Saturn

• Venus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Which planet in the solar system is the largest?

• Neptune

• Satrun

• Venus

• Jupiter

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The following describes what celestial body.

~ A rock

~ Found in a belt

~ Originates between Mars and Jupiter

~ Vary greatly in size; dust-like to hundreds of miles across

• Comet

• Meteor

• Asteroid

• Dark Matter

Which of these is NOT large and gaseous?

• Jupiter

• Mercury

• Saturn

• Uranus

These are rocky, airless worlds that orbit our Sun, but they are too small to be called planets. Tens of thousands of these minor planets are gathered in a belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. What is this celestial body called?

• asteroid

• comet

• meteor

• planetarium

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The inner planets are DIFFERENT from the outer planets mainly because they are

• colder

• larger

• comprised (made of) gas

• comprised (made of) rock