Asteroids, Comets, and Meteoroids
Planet Order
Vocabulary
Planet Sizes
FINAL JEOPARDY
100

A meteoroid that burns up in Earth's atmosphere

What is a Metor?

100

3rd Planet from the Sun

What is Earth?

100

A mixture of gases that surrounds a planet or moon.

What is an atmosphere?

100

Biggest planet

What is Jupiter?

200

Comets are made out of this

What is frozen dust and rock?

200

What planet is the farthest from the sun?

What is Neptune?

200

Bowl-shaped structures on the surface of a planet or moon caused by the impact of meteorites.

What is a Crater?

200

What planet is the second smallest?

What is Mars?

300

Where asteroids are

What is the Asteroid belt? 

(Between Mars and Jupiter) 

300

The planet closest to the sun

What is Mercury?

300

An object that orbits the sun and is spherical, but has not cleared the area of its orbit.

What is a Dwarf Planet?

300

What planets are bigger than Jupiter?

What is (nothing)?

400

A meteoroid that hits Earth's surface. 

What is a meteorite?

400

What are the gas giants in our solar system?

What is farthest from the sun?

400

The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon

What is an orbit?

400

What planet is the second largest?

What is Saturn?

500

How big is a meteoroid (Exact Quizlet Definition) 

What is sand grain to Bolder size?

500

All the planets in order

What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune!

500

Natural objects found in space such as: Moon, Sun, Planets, Comets and Asteroids

What are Celestial bodies?

500

Smallest Planet

What is Mercury?

500

Which 2 planets have no Moons?

What are Mercury and Venus?