Solar System Basics

One similarity between asteroids, comets and meteoroids is that they all:

• are made of rock

• come from the Asteroid Belt

• come from the Oort Cloud

• orbit the sun

Huge chunks of rock and metal (some measuring miles wide) are believed to be left-over pieces of planets and moons called:

• Comets

• Meteors

• Asteroids

• Meteroids

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These objects that orbit the sun are nicknamed, "dirty snowballs."

• Comets

• Asteroids

• Meteors

• Meteroids

What are meteors made of?

• chunks of rocks and minerals

• Ice

• Air

• Gas and debris 

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What is the only planet known to contain life?

• Mars

• Earth

• Neptune

• Uranus

When a meteoroid STRIKES the surface of the earth scientists refer to them as:

• Asteroids

• Comets

• Meteors

• Meteorites 

A shooting star is actually a...

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

• Meteor

One full orbit of an object around another object is called a ________.

• axis

• rotation

• revolution

• satellite

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which model of the solar system has the sun in the center with all of the planets orbiting it?

• heliocentric

• geocentric

What is the solar system?

• a. space rocks and comets

• b. group of objects in space that orbit a star

• c. planets only that orbit another planet

• d. stars grouped together

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