Solar System

Which is closest to the age of our solar system?

• 4,500 years

• 4.5 million years

• 4.5 billion years

• 45 billion years

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Match the following

• smallest planet

• Earth

• planet with most water

• Venus

• hottest planet

• Neptune

• ice giant

• Jupiter

• largest planet

• Mercury

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

All of the objects ​ (a)   the Sun are held in orbit by the Sun's ​ (b)   pull. At the outer edge of the ​ (c)   , the Sun's ​ (d)   can no longer be felt. ​

• orbiting
• gravitational
• Oort Cloud
• influence

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The Sun is a ​ ​ (a)  

• star
• meteorite
• planet
• dwarf planet
• moon
• asteroid

What percent of all the suns in our galaxy have planetary systems?

• 16

• 100

• 50

• 30

Our galaxy is the _____ ___.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Which statement is true?

• There is life on Mars right now.

• There may have been life on Mars a long time ago.

• There has never been life on Mars.

Match the following

• gas giant

• Venus

• Earth's "sister" planet

• Saturn

• largest rings

• Uranus

• ice giant

• Mercury

• fastest orbit

• Jupiter

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What is Ceres?

• a state that is larger than Texas

• a planet that is larger than the state of Texas

• a dwarf planet that is about the size of Texas

• a moon of Venus that is smaller than Texas

Which planets have humans visited?

• Mars

• the moon

• Venus

• none