Solar System Test

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Select the correct vocabulary word to its definition below: - a smaller or larger version of something real, like a building or car, where all the parts are the right size compared to each other. It helps us see what the real thing looks like without being the full size.

• Scale Model
• Solar System
• Planet
• Orbit

Select the correct vocabulary word to its definition below: - A gravitationally bound system consisting of a star/sun and the objects that orbit it.

• Scale Model
• Solar System
• Planet
• Orbit

Select the correct vocabulary word to its definition below: - An astronomical body that orbits a star, is big enough to have enough gravity to force a spherical shape, and is big enough that its gravity has cleared away any objects of a similar size near its orbit.

• Scale Model
• Solar System
• Planet
• Orbit

Select the correct vocabulary word to its definition below: - A regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another one.

• Scale Model
• Solar System
• Planet
• Orbit

Select the correct vocabulary word to its definition below: - An attractive force between two masses by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center.

• Gravity
• Asteroid belt
• Habitable Zone
• Kuiper Belt

Select the correct vocabulary word to its definition below: - The orbital region around a star in which an Earth-like planet can possess liquid water on its surface and possibly support life.

• Gravity
• Asteroid belt
• Habitable Zone
• Kuiper Belt

Select the correct vocabulary word to its definition below: - A region in the solar system roughly located between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars that contains millions of irregularly shaped pieces of rock (called asteroids) as well as ice and dust.

• Gravity
• Asteroid belt
• Habitable Zone
• Kuiper Belt

Select the correct vocabulary word to its definition below: - A large region in the solar system past Neptune where Pluto and other dwarf planets orbit the Sun along with rocks, dust, and ice.

• Gravity
• Asteroid belt
• Habitable Zone
• Kuiper Belt