Solar System Vocabulary

What classifies a terrestrial planet?

• rocky body and surface

• stable atmosphere

• presence of liquid water

• placement in solar system

As a planet is located further from the Sun

• Its orbital period increases

• its orbital period decreases

• its orbital period is constant

• its rotational period is increased

Which ringed planet has a density less than that of water

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Neptune

• Uranus

How are the outer planets similar?

• They have solid surfaces

• They are about the same size

• They have atmospheres that are mostly hydrogen

Chunks of rocks and ice that form a belt just beyond Mars

• asteroids

• comets

• inner planets

• outer planets

• meteors

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Objects made of ice, rock, and dust that glow near the Sun

• asteroids

• comets

• inner planets

• outer planets

• meteors

Which planet in our solar system is closest to the Sun?

• Earth
• Jupiter
• Mercury
• Saturn

Which of the following is an accurate model of how the Sun, Earth, and Moon move?

• Sun and moon orbit Earth
• Earth and moon orbit Sun
• Earth orbit's the Sun and the moon orbits Earth
• Earth and sun orbit moon

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What planet is eighth in the Solar System?

• Uranus
• Jupiter
• Neptune
• Mars

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The __________ has planets, moons, comets, and asteroids.

• solar system
• earth
• rotation
• United States

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