Solar System and Asteroid Belt

The asteroid belt is also know as...

• The comet belt

• The main belt

• The string of rocks

• The kuiper belt

True or False: The asteroid belt is a densely packed area that would be hard to navigate.

• True

• False

Which planets are the asteroid belt in between?

• Venus & Earth

• Earth & Mars

• Mars & Jupiter

• Jupiter & Saturn

• Saturn & Uranus

What are the four largest objects in the asteroid belt?

• Ceres, hygeia, Pallas, vesta

• Vesta, Pallas, Hygiene, eris

• Haumea, Pluto, Kuiper, Vesta

• Pallas, Ceres, Hygeia, Vesta

What is Ceres?

• Asteroid

• Comet

• Meteroite

• Dwarf Planet

Describe an asteroids origin and orbit

• Between Mars and Jupiter, long elliptical orbit
• Between Mars and Jupiter, circular orbit
• Another galaxy, long elliptical orbit
• Oort cloud, long elliptical orbit

What is the composition of an asteroid?

• Ice, dust, rock, frozen gases
• Rock, ice, salt, carbon
• Metals and rocky material
• Rock, ice, magma, frozen gases

Between Mars and Jupiter is a region of the solar system called the __________.

• asteroid belt
• Milky Way
• Kuiper belt
• Oort Cloud

The asteroid belt is located between which 2 planets?

• Mercury and Venus

• Jupiter and Saturn

• Uranus and Neptune

• Mars and Jupiter

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Ceres is...

• the largest asteroid in the Kuiper Belt.

• the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt.

• an asteroid in the Oort cloud.

• a comet in the Oort cloud.