Solar Systems

What is a solar system?

• A gravitationally bound system formed about 4.6 million years ago when a cloud collapsed.

• A gravitationally bound system of the sun and objects that orbit it.

• A system of objects that orbit earth.

• a gravitational system made of planets similar to Jupiter Uranus and mars.

A solar system consists of?

• A solar system is made up of water and stars that allow the suns core to release energy out in the photosphere.

• A solar system is made up of multiple planets and stars.

• A solar system is made up of stars and all the objects that orbit it including planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.

• A solar system is made up of one star and all the objects that orbit it including planets moons, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.

How are the planets in the solar system ordered?

• Nearest to the sun and working outwards you have Mercury, Mars, and Venus

• Nearest to the sun and working outwards Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

• Nearest to the sun and moving outwards Neptune, Earth, Mars, and planet nine.

• Nearest to the sun and working outwards Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and the possible planet nine.

What do you envision our solar system looking like?

Do you think Earth is the only planet known to have life as of NOW?

• Yes

• No

When was Pluto kicked from the plant club?

• 2007

• 2013

• 2024

• 2006

What are the characteristics that define a planet?

• Orbit, Mass, Size, Rotation, and Time

• How far it is from the sun?

• Orbit, Mass, Size or Rotation

• Being farthest from the moon?

About how many other solar system may there be?

• 3,500

• 3,600

• 12,000

• 3,200

What characteristics of a planet point to the possibility of life being present?

• The bodies of water located on the planet.

• Using geographic locations you can narrow down where life exists.

• Anywhere there is water, there is life.

• As long as the planet is close to the sun there is life.