Solar System Challenge

Select all the Inner Planets

• Mercury

• Saturn

• Mars

• Earth

• Venus

Place the Inner Planets in order from closest to farther away from the Sun

• Mercury

• Venus

• Earth

• Mars

Select the Outer Planets

• Uranus

• Neptune

• Jupiter

• Mars

• Saturn

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Reorder the Outer Planets in order from closest to farther away from the Sun

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Uranus

• Neptune

A Shooting Star is a

• Comet

• Meteor

• Meteorite

• Meteoroid

The inner planets are known as

• Terrestrial Planets

• Gas Planets

• Spherical Planets

• Red Planets

The outer planets are also called

• Metallic Planets

• Jovian Planets

• Terrestrial Planets

• Ring Planets

What holds the planets in their orbits around the sun?

• gravity and inertia

• speed and mass

• mass and velocity

• revolution and rotation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Name the area between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. 

• Oort Cloud
• Asteroid belt
• Kuiper belt
• Photosphere

Most likely due to a massive collision, this planet rotates from top to bottom.

• Saturn
• Venus
• Neptune
• Uranus