Solar System 1

The Solar System is made up of our (a)   called the Sun, and everything that travels, or orbits, around it.

Comets are cosmic snowballs of rock, ___, and dust.

• Water

• Ice

• Air

The four outer planets or the four gas planets are...

• Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus

• Mercury, Saturn, Mars, Neptune

• Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Saturn

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

This ring of icy rocks lies beyond the path that _______ follows around the Sun.

• Uranus

• Neptune

• Jupiter

• Saturn

Most asteroids can be found in the (a)   belt

Select the 4 rocky planets in the Solar System.

• Mercury and Venus

• Jupiter and Saturn

• Earth and Mars

• Neptune and Uranus

The Kuiper Belt is a ring of (a)   rocks.

Write one example of a dwarf planet.

A light year is the ________ light travels in a year.

• Time

• Distance

• Height

• Length

The Solar System is located in the _____ ___ galaxy.

(a)