TEK 6.11A Part 2

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune whose orbits lie beyond the asteroid belt.

• Outer Planets

• Asteroids

• Asteroid Belt

• Meteoroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Large and small rocks or metallic masses orbiting the Sun; made up of materials similar to those that formed the planets.

• Outer Planets

• Asteroids

• Comets

• Moons

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The region between the inner and out planets where most asteroids orbit around the sun.

• Comets

• Meteor

• Moon

• Asteroid Belt

A natural chunk of rock or dust existing outside of Earth's Atmosphere

• Meteoroid

• Satellite

• Coma

• Comet

Remains of meteoroids that strike the surface of the Earth or the Moon.

• Meteor

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

• Comet

Something that orbits around another object; a moon orbiting a planet or a man-made object orbiting a planet

• Satellite

• Moon

• Meteor

• Coma

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

A celestial body that revolves around a planet.

• Moon

• Star

• Satellite

• Coma

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

A celestial body of ice, dust, and rock with an elongated and elliptical orbit.

• Moon

• Coma

• Comet

• Meteor

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Glowing, heated dust and vaporized gas that surrounds the icy comet nucleus as it travels near the Sun; Solar winds cause heated gases to stream out of the nucleus and form a tail that points away from the Sun.

• Satellite

• Moon

• Comet

• Coma

Planets that are Earth-Like

• Planet

• Inner Planet

• Rocky

• Terrestrial