Exploring the Solar System

True or False: The Solar System formed from gas and dust in space.

• True

• False

True or False: The planets formed from leftovers from the Sun.

• True

• False

True or False: Asteroids formed from leftover material that didn't grow enough to be a planet.

• True

• False

What does "terrestrial" mean?

• dense and gaseous - made of gases

• hard and rocky - made of land

• neither

Which type of planet is made of dense gases?

• Terrestrial

• Gaseous

Which 4 planets are terrestrial?

• Mercury

• Venus

• Earth

• Mars

• Jupiter

Which 4 planets are Jovian? (gaseous)

• Venus

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Uranus

• Neptune

Which is NOT an object found in our solar system:

• star

• asteroid

• planet

• galaxy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Where are most asteroids found?

• between Earth and the Sun
• between Mars and Jupiter
• after Pluto

Pluto is found where?

• the asteroid belt

• the Kuiper belt

• the Oort Cloud