TEK 6.11A - Solar System (Part 3)

The _________ is a region between the planets Mars and Jupiter containing thousands of rocky objects that orbit the Sun.

• dwarf planets

• comets

• Asteroid belt

___________ was once considered a full planet but was redefined as a dwarf planet in 2006.

• Pluto

• Mars

• Ceres

• MakeMake

About 99.85% of the mass of the solar system is the __________.

• Asteroidbelt

• Sun

• Moon

• planets

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

All of the planets orbit the Sun in the same _________ direction.

• clockwise

• counterclockwise

The inner and outer planets are separated by the __________.

• asteroid belt

• moon

• comets

• dwarf planets

Each planet orbits or ______ around the Sun.

• rotates

• revolves

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

All rotation and revolution lengths are the same for each planet.

• True

• False

Identify the inner planet below

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Uranus

Identify the outer planet below

• Mercury

• Venus

• Neptune

• Earth

What lies between the inner and outer planets?

• comets

• meteors

• asteroid belt

• meteorites