Solar System Vocabulary

Which model puts the earth in the center of the solar system?

• The big bang

• The heliocentric model

• The geocentric model

• The Milky Way model

Which model shows the sun at a fixed position in the center of the solar system?

• Big Bang model

• Ptolemaic model
• Heliocentric model
• Geocentric model

A large celestial body that revolves around the sun in a solar system

• comet

• moon

• star

• planet

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Which of these are inner planets?

• Mercury

• Earth

• Saturn

• Neptune

Which of these are outer planets?

• Mars

• Venus

• Jupiter

• Neptune

Where are the outer planets found?

• Beyond the asteroid belt

• Between Earth and Venus

• Closest to the sun

• Beyond the dwarf planet Pluto

Which statements about the inner planets is FALSE?

• They have smaller orbits than the outer planets

• They are made of gas

• They have the most moons

• They are the hottest

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What makes something a dwarf planet?

• It does not orbit the sun

• It is not round

• It does not have a clear neighborhood in its orbit

What is true about the Kuiper belt?

• It is between Mars and Jupiter

• It is just beyond the orbit of Neptune

• It is a doughnut-shaped ring of icy objects

• It orbits the Earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Large and small rocks or metallic masses that orbit the sun and are similar to the materials that make up planets are called

• meteors

• asteroids

• comets

• dwarf planets

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