Solar System-Planets

What is a planet?

• A celestial body moving in place.

• A celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star.

• A planet moving around a planet.

• A star.

What are some characteristics of planets?(multichoice)

• Color

• size

• density

• speed

Which are the inner planets?

• none of these

• mercury, earth, Venus, Jupiter

• mercury, venus, earth, mars

• jupiter, saturn, neptune

True or false, inner planets are further away from one another.

• true

• false

(multichoice)Inner planets are...

• gas giants

• more dense

• smaller

• larger

which planets are the outer planets?

• earth, jupiter, mars, saturn

• jupiter, mars, saturn, uranus

• jupiter, saturn, neptune, pluto

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

True or False, outer planets are further apart from each other compared to inner planets?

• True

• False

These are characteristics of outer planets (multichoice)

• made up of mostly gas

• larger

• smaller

• longer revolution

How do planets move?(multichoice)

• Planet revolves counter clockwise around the sun

• Planet revolves clockwise around the sun

• Suns gravity keeps celestial objects in orbit.

• the planets orbit is elliptical shaped

True or False, mercury is the 2nd closest planet to our sun.

• True

• False