Solar System review

The asteroid belt is between which two planets?

• Mercury and Earth

• Mars and Jupiter

• Jupiter and Saturn

• Uranus and Neptune

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Look at the diagram of the Earth's orbit. Why does the Earth revolve around the Sun in this shape? Explain your answer using gravity, inertia, and orbit. You must use those terms correctly to receive full credit (3.0)

• The Earth orbits the Sun because, the Sun's gravity is pulling on it, and its inertia keeps it moving.

• The Moons gravity pulls the Earth's inertia to orbit the Sun

• gravity, inertia orbit

• idk

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The Kuiper Belt is beyond what outer planet?

• Earth

• Saturn

• Neptune

• Uranus

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The larger planets in our solar system are called

• Terrestrial giants

• Gas giants

• retrograde

• habitable

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What are the two main characteristics you would observe about the inner planets in any solar system? (2.0)

• Rocky composition

  and smaller size

• Gaseous composition

  and larger size

• Gassy and

  Smaller size

• Rocky composition and Larger size

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Imagine you are an astronaut in the year 3000 exploring the galaxy: which of these planets in your star chart has the most moons?

• Jupiter

• Venus

• Earth

• Uranus

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

In the distant future, you're navigating through the cosmos. Which two planets in our solar system would you observe rotating in a retrograde motion from your spaceship? (2.0)

• Venus and Neptune

• Mercury and Uranus

• Venus and Uranus

• Jupiter and Neptune

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In the year 3000, humans have colonized many planets. Among these, ___ is the largest planet in our solar system. (2.0)

• Jupiter

• Earth

• Saturn

• Mercury

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What other orbiting objects can be found in the Solar System?

• Meteors,

  Asteroids,

  Comets

• Black holes,

  nebulas,

• the final frontier

• Kuiper belt,

  space craft

• Oort Cloud

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Not gravitationally dominant in it's orbit, found in Kuiper belt

• Dwarf planet

• Meteoroid

• Asteroid

• Sun

• Comet

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