Solar System

Check all off the inner planets

• Uranus

• Mercury

• Earth

• Saturn

What do you call the path a planet takes as it goes around the sun?

• Rotation

• Quibit

• Parallax

• Orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Mars is a(n):

• Dwarf planet

• Terrestrial planet

• Outer planet

• Gas giant

How far is 1 Astronomical Unit?

• 5000 miles

• 93 million miles

• 9.3 trillion miles

• 6 million miles

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

An Astronomical Unit is:

• The distance between the sun and Neptune

• The average distance between planets

• The distance between the sun and the closest star

• The average distance between the earth and the sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Why is Pluto not a planet?

• It is not round

• Its too far from the sun

• It didn't clear out it's "neighborhood"

• It doesn't orbit the sun

What is between Mars and Jupiter?

• The asteroid belt

• Empty space

• Venus

• Earth

What shape is a planet's orbit around the sun?

• A circle

• A toroid

• An ellipse

Check all of the outer planets

• Uranus

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Saturn is a(n):

• Dwarf planet

• Terrestrial planet

• Inner planet

• Gas giant