Space and Solar System

What makes up the Solar System?

• The Milky Way

• the planets, the sun, any moons, and other bodies that revolve.

• The 4 oceans

• comets, asteroids, and meteors

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Planets do not make their own light, rather they _____________light.

• create

• reflect

• generate

• form

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Its gravity holds the other planets and objects in their position within the Solar System.

• The Moon

• The Sun

• The Asteroid Belt

• The Meteoroids

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What are some parts of the Solar System?

• the planets

• the moon(s)

• Comets

• Asteroids

• Meteroids

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Our Solar System is also known as the?

• Asteroid Belt

• The Gaseous planets

• Milky Way

• Kiper Belt

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How did our Solar System form?

• Through a giant crash of planets

• through a hot, spinning cloud of gases & dust

• through an explosion near the surface of Earth's atmosphere

• none of these reasons

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What are Moons?

• satellites

• planets

• comets

• oceans

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About how many moons can be found in our Solar System?

• 50

• 40

• 60

• 140

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What is an asteroid?

• a relatively small rocky body that orbits the sun

• a satellite of Earth

• a small, orbitting body made up of dust, ice, and frozen gases

• a streak of light caused by a chunk of matter that enters Earth's atmosphere and gets heated by the air

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What is a comet?

• a streak of light caused by a chunk of matter that enters Earth's atmosphere and gets heated by the air

• a satellite of Earth

• A relatively small rocky object that orbits the sun

• a small orbitting body made up of dust, ice & frozen gases

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