Solar System Quiz

When you look at the Sun what do you see?

• Chromosphere

• Photosphere

• Corona

• Radioactive Zone

What causes meteors to burn up in our atmosphere?

• Heats from Earths Atmosphere

• Heat from the Sun

• Friction from the Earths Atmosphere

• Atmosphere to hot it cant handle it

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Pieces of Asteroids that land on other Planets including Earths Surface

• Moon

• Meteorite

• Meteor

• Cant happen

A shooting star is actually a...

• meteor

• meterorite

• comet

• meteoroid

Planets, asteroids, comets and meteoroids all stay in orbit around the sun due to the sun's strong force of _________________

• gravity

• solar power

• motion

• electricity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

A meteor that does not burn up in Earth's atmosphere and strikes Earth's surface forming a crater on Earth!

• meteor

• meteriod

• meteorite

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Where do comets form/come from?

• Earth's surface

• Earth's atmosphere

• Asteroid Belt

• Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud

Which object in space is larger?

• Meteor

• Asteroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Which object in space is NOT made of rock and metal?

• Comet

• Meteor

• Asteroid

• Meteorite

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The outermost layer of the sun, which can only be seen during a solar eclipse, is the __________.

• Radiative zone

• Chromosphere

• Corona

• Phtosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1