Chapter 28 our Solar System

The four inner planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

• Gas Giants

• Dwarf Planet

• Terrestrial

• Planetesimals

Where does a small, icy body that has a head and a tail called a comet, spend most of its life?

• Between Mars and Jupiter.

• Beyond the orbit of Neptune.

• In orbit around Earth.

• between Mercury and Venus.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Must orbit the Sun; be nearly spherical; has not cleared the orbit of debris

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Dwarf Planet

• Planetesimals

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The streak of light produced by a meteoroid

• Scarps

• Meteor

• Satellite

• Meteoroid

A meteoroid that hits the ground

• Asteroid

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

An asteroid fragment

• meteoroid

• comet

• planetesimals

• satellite

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The large planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Terrestrial

• Gas Giants

• Dwarf Planet

• Planetesimals

The shape of the planets' orbitals around the Sun

• Eccentricity

• Belts

• Ellipse

• Zones

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What is the first planet of the solar system (closest planet to the Sun)?

• Sun

• Venus

• Earth

• Mercury

A small, icy body that orbits the Sun, also called a "dirty snowball" is a(n)...

• Asteroid
• Comet
• Meteor
• Meteoroid