The Solar System

How many planets are in our solar system (not including pluto)

• 9
• 8
• 10
• 7

Name the planets in order from the one closet to the Sun

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

What are the rings of Saturn made of?

• Rocks and Dust
• Rock, Frozen gases, Ice crystals, and water
• Ice Crystals
• Stars

Which planet is the only planets to spin on its side?

• Earth
• Neptune
• Jupiter
• Uranus

A small, solid, rocky body that orbits the Sun. 

• Asteroid
• Comet
• Meteoroid
• Meteor

A small, icy body that orbits the Sun. Is made of a main body and a tail.

• Asteroid
• Comet
• Meteor
• Meteoroid

A chunk of rock that burns up upon entering a planet's atmosphere

• Comet
• Meteor
• Meteoroid
• Asteroid

What six things make up our Solar System?

• Sun, Planets, Moons, Asteroids, Comets, Meteors
• Galaxies, Planets, Stars, Asteroids, Planets, Moons
• Sun, Planets, Moons, Stars, Asteroids, Comets
• Planets, Stars, Galaxies, Comets, Meteors, Sun

Which of the following is an accurate model of how the Sun, Earth, and Moon move?

• Sun and moon orbit Earth
• Earth and moon orbit Sun
• Earth orbit's the Sun and the moon orbits Earth
• Earth and sun orbit moon

A student made a model of how the Earth, Moon, and Sun orbit. She used ping-pong balls
to represent each one. She painted each one a different color. Then, she placed the Moon
and Earth close together and the Sun much further away.What is one limitation of the student's model?

• She used the same size balls.
• She made earth orbit the sun.
• She moved the Sun away from the Earth and Moon.