Space Rocks and solar system

Which one takes 24 hours?

• rotation
• revolution

Tags

NGSS.5-ESS1-2

What describes the earth going around the sun?

• rotation
• revolution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

This is the first planet from the Sun; it is very hot in the day and very cold in the night.

• Mercury

• Neptune

• Earth

• Jupiter

These are the 4 planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) are known as

• terrestrial planets

• gas giants

• dwarf planets

• solar planets

Where is the Asteroid Belt located in the Solar System?

• near Neptune

• between Mercury and Venus

• between Mars and Jupiter

• around the Sun

Which planet has the most gravity?

• Earth

• Mars

• Neptune

• Jupiter

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

They are sometimes called shooting stars

• interplanetary dust
• asteroids
• comets
• meteors

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

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

When a meteor hits Earth, what is it called?

• meteorite
• meteroid
• meteor

Huge chunks of rock and metal (some measuring miles wide) and are believed to be left-over pieces of planets and moons are called:

• Comets
• Meteors
• Asteroids
• Meteroids