Creation of the Solar System

Place the following sentences in order using your Formation of Solar System Comic Strip.

• A distant supernova explodes and moves the nebula

• A nebula of gas and dust floating in space

• Planets and moons are born from left over bits of rock

• The nebula collapses due to gravity

• The collapsing nebula makes a solar nebula, the sun is born

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Moons are pieces of the solar system that orbit around stars.

• True

• False

Asteroids are known as "space trash" because they are left over pieces from when the planets were first formed.

• True

• False

Venus' rings are made of ice and rock.

• True

• False

Place the "Inner" planets in order starting from the Sun.

• Venus

• Mars

• The Sun

• Earth

• Mercury

The Earth is the center of the solar system.

• True

• False

The solar system was born approximately 4.6 million years ago.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The solar system is 4.6 Billion Years Old

Place the "Outer" planets in order starting from Mars.

• Mars

• Saturn

• Uranus

• Neptune

• Jupiter

Scientists believe the Universe is approximately 13.7 billion years old.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

The first force to emerge from the Big Bang was...

• gravity

• friction

• "The Force"

• Jedi

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-2