What object is Earth’s solar system can also be called a gas giant (other than the Sun)?
What are the inner planets
100
What is a dwarf planet?
An object that orbits the Sun, is smaller than a planet but larger than an asteroid, and is nearly round in shape.
100
What are meteors made up of? Where do they come from?
What is rock and metal. What are comets and asteroids.
100
How do asteroids and planets compare?
A. Asteroids are smaller than planets.
B. Only planets revolve around the sun.
C. Only asteroids have craters.
D. Both asteroids and planets have rings.
What is A.
100
Which planet has the largest system of rings?
What is Saturn
200
List the planets in order from closest to the Sun to farthest from the Sun.
What is
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
200
What is a galaxy?
A star system that contains a large group of stars.
200
What is a comet made up of?
What is ice and gas
200
Which planet takes the longest time to make one revolution around the Sun?
What is Neptune.
200
What do asteroids like to orbit and how do they usually do so?
What is the sun and in groups
300
What are the outer planets? What is another name for them?
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Gas giants
300
What is a meteor called when it reaches the ground?
What is meteorite
300
Match the amount with each element to correctly identify the composition of an asteroid.
91% cobalt
8.5% nickel
0.5% iron
91%-iron
8.5%- nickel
0.55- cobalt
300
About how many galaxies are there?
What is about 170 billion
300
How do asteroids and planets compare?
A. Asteroids are smaller than planets.
B. Only planets revolve around the sun.
C. Only asteroids have craters.
D. Both asteroids and planets have rings.
What is A.
400
What are the inner planets? What is another name for them?
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Terrestrial planets
400
Large asteroids are called what?
What are planetoids
400
Which is the correct order of names for a space rock as it falls from space to land on Earth’s surface?
A. meteorite, meteor, meteoroid
B. meteor, meteorite, meteoroid
C. meteoroid, meteor, meteorite
D. meteorite, meteoroid, meteor
What is C.
400
What would the Sun look like if you were standing on Pluto? Why?
What is like a tiny white star since it is so far away.
400
How many moons do inner planets usually have?
What is very few to none.
500
What planet has the strongest gravitational pull?
Jupiter
500
Which of the following describes a comet?
A.A large collection of burning hot gas.
B.A collection of ice, dust, and small rock particles with a tail
C.A large rocky ball that orbits in a regular pattern around the Sun
D.A small rocky object that burns up in Earth’s atmosphere
What is B.
500
What does a galaxy contain (list 3 things)?
1. Gas
2. Dust
3. Billions of stars
500
How long (in Earth days) is a day on Pluto? How many moons does Pluto have?
What is 6 days and 4 moons.
500
What is a dwarf planet smaller than? What is a dwarf planet larger than? How many dwarf planets do we have in our solar system?
What is smaller than a planet, larger than an asteroid, and 5 dwarf planets are in our solar system