Solar System

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are considered the ---

• inner planets

• outer planets

• asteroid belt

• gas giants

What is the star that is the center of our universe?

• Milky Way

• galaxy

• Sun

• Earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What is the name of our galaxy?

• Outer planets

• Sun

• Asteroid Belt

• Milky Way

What is the 3rd planet from the sun that we live on?

• Mars

• Venus

• Earth

• Neptune

What is the planet closest to the Sun?

• Mercury

• Earth

• Mars

• Uranus

A natural satellite that revolves around a planet.

• asteroids

• comets

• moon

• meteors

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Governs (controls) the motion of our solar system.

• gravity

• moon

• comets

• sun

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

The greater the Mass of the Planet...

• the greater the amount of pull from the moons

• the less the amount of pull from the moons

• the less the amount of Gravitational Force.

• the greater the amount of Gravitational Force.

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Large clumps of ice, dust and frozen gases that travel around the Sun in long elliptical orbits

• comets

• sun

• moon

• meteoroids

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune. Called Gas Giants.

• inner planets

• outer planets

• comets

• asteroid belt