Unit 8 Test Review

A small round body with craters on it that lies between Mars and Jupiter:

• Asteroid

• Meteor

• Comet

• Meteorite

Which of the following is an OUTER planet?

• Venus

• Earth

• Mars

• Jupiter

T/F: Our Sun is the only star in our solar system.

• True

• False

The four outer planets can be characterized as:

• smaller planets

• Fewer than 3 moons

• Terrestrial

• Gas Giants

The four planets closest to the sun can be characterized as:

• Larger planets

• Gas giants

• Rocky, terrestrial

• Gas Giants

T/F: Mars has an abundance of water on it.

• True

• False

T/F: Asteroids were formed at the same time as our Solar System.

• True

• False

One complete orbit made by a planet or satellite around another object is:

• rotation

• revolution

• Meteor

• Comet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

An object spinning on its axis:

• rotation

• revolution

• meteor

• comet

Solids that range in size from dust to small rocks that are scattered throughout the solar system, often due to the breakup of comets, that burn in a brief bright display when they enter Earth’s atmosphere

• Meteor

• Meteoroid

• Asteroid

• Comet