Solar System

What do Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars all have in common?

• They are all very cold planets.

• They are considered terrestrial planets, that is rocky or have metals with hard surface.

• They are about the same size.

• They are considered gas giants

What is the correct order of the planets in the Solar System, starting closest to the Sun?

• Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn

What is the object that all planets in our solar system orbit?

• The moon

• The sun

• The Milky Way

• Mercury

The four inner planets are rocky and small. Which description best fits the next four outer planets?

• They are also rocky and small.

• They are very large and has no moons

• They are small and made of ice.

• They are very large, made of gases with no solid surface

A force of attraction between any two objects is called _____________.

• static electricity 
• rotation
• gravity
• orbit

A cloud of gas and dust is called a....

• Solar System

• Nebula

• Galaxy

• Red Giant

What is the Sun?

• It is a satellite
• It is a Star
• It is a comet
• It is a planet

Which of the following is ordered from largest to smallest?

• Universe -> Galaxy -> Solar System -> Planet

• Planet -> Galaxy -> Solar System -> Universe

• Planet -> Solar System -> Galaxy -> Universe D.) Universe

• Universe -> Solar System -> Galaxy -> Planet

Which planet is the largest planet in the solar system and is the fifth planet?

• the sun

• Uranus

• Jupiter

• Earth

Which planet is home to the tallest mountain , has the largest dust storms in the solar system and is also known as the 'Red Planet' because of the presence of iron oxide in it's rock.

• Earth

• Venus

• Jupiter

• Mars