The Solar System

What is an orbit?

• A circle

• the path an object takes as it moves around another object

• a planet in space

• the sun an objects around it

A _______________ is a large body of rock or gas that orbits the sun.

• asteroid

• planet

• meteor

• moon

True or False: The sun in a star

• true

• false

True or false: The sun doesn't have very much gravity

• true

• false

The center of our solar system is __________________.

• the earth

• a moon

• the sun

• the milky way galaxy

The four planets closest to the sun are called ___________.

• the inner planets

• the sun planets

• the outer planets

• the moon planets

What kind of surface do the inner planets have?

• Gas

• rocky

• all water

How are the outer planets alike? (select all that apply)

• they are gas planets

• they are rocky

• they have rings

• they are far from the sun

• they don't have many moons

True or false: Asteroids and comets make up other parts of the solar system.

• true

• false

What is the first planet from the sun?