Solar System Chapter 12 Lesson 2,3,4

Which of the following is NOT a dwarf planet?

• Makemake

• Haumea

• Titan

• Pluto

Name the planets in order.

List the names of Jupiter's four largest moons.

True or False

Ganymede is a volcano on the planet Jupiter.

Scientists believe that all of the outer planets have________.

• small gaseous cores

• large gaseous cores

• small solid cores

• large solid cores

Small pieces of rock that enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up are called________.

• stars

• meteors

• meteorites

• asteroids

True or False

Long-period comets come from a zone called the Oort cloud.

This planet has no atmosphere.

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Mercury

Mercury is too _______ to have strong enough gravity to hold an atmosphere.

One of ______ moons is larger than the planet Mercury.

• Neptune's

• Pluto's

• Uranus's

• Saturn's

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