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WorksheetsSolar System (19)
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Asteroid
millions of small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
made of gas, dust, and ice and moves around the sun in an oval-shaped orbit.
the average distance from Earth to the Sun.
The time it takes an object to travel once around the sun.
Comet
millions of small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
made of gas, dust, and ice and moves around the sun in an oval-shaped orbit.
the average distance from Earth to the Sun.
The time it takes an object to travel once around the sun.
The time it takes an object to travel once around the sun.
Astronomical Unit
Period of Rotation
Period of Revolution
Green house effect
The planets closest to the sun, made of metal and rock, and have a solid outer later.
Asteroid
Gas Giant
Astronomical Unit
Terrestrial Planet
Occurs when a planet's atmosphere traps solar energy and causes the surface temperature to increase.
Gas Giants
Terrestrial Planet
Greenhouse Effect
Period of Rotation
The four largest moons of Jupiter-Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto- made of rock and ice.
Galilean moons
Astronomical unit
Solar System
Inner Planets
A meteoroid that strikes a planet or a moon.
Meteroite
Meteor
Comet
Asteroid
A round depression formed on the surface of a planet, moon, or other space object by the impact of a meteor.
meteor
impact crater
Saturn
Gas giant
Small, rocky particle that moves through space.
impact crater
astronomical unit
terrestrial planet
meteoroid
A streak of light in Earth's atmosphere made by a glowing meteoroid.
Galilean moons
asteroid
meteor
period of rotation
The time it takes an object to complete on rotation
Period of Revolution
Orbit
Revolve
Period of Rotation
the average distance from Earth to the Sun
Space Shuttle
Astronomical Unit
Miles
Average Distance
