Earth and Space Science

What is the North Stars Scientific Name?

• Peleic

• Pallec

• Palles

• Polaris

Is gravity a....

• Force that pulls things in a straight line.

• Force

• air and hydrogen

• Force that pulls things toward an object with bigger gravitational pull

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What is a dwarf planet?

• An asteroid

• Pluto

• Ceres

• A object that orbits a star , but is too small to be classified as a planet.

Stars Are _______________

• Balls of gas

• Balls of flame

• Stars

• 1 and 2

What is a asteroid

• A small rocky object orbiting in space.

• A meteoroid.

• A meteor.

• A comet.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What is a comet

• Dust and ice orbiting in space.

• A small rocky body orbiting in space.

• A blown out meteroid

• A dwarf planet

what is a meteor

• A meteoroid when it enters a planet's atmosphere.

• An asteroid in the suns gravity

• A rock

• A planet

what is our biggest planet in our solar system

• Saturn

• Venus

• Jupiter

• Uranus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What is the oort cloud

• The known end of the solar system

• An asteroid belt

• Dust in space

• none of the above

What is a light year?

• The time it takes light to travel in a year.

• A measurement of space

• An AU meter

• A and c