The Solar System

The terrestrial planets do not include:

• Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

• Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus

This is a minor planet that's made up of metal and/or rock:

• Asteroid

• Jupiter

• Earth

• Comet

• Meteoroid

The order of the planets, starting with the nearest ones to the sun are:

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

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

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

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

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

A _____ is an object that may one day become a _____ if it survives its journey through Earth's atmosphere:

• meteorite, meteoroid

• meteor, meteorite

• meteorite, meteor

• asteroid, meteoroid

• comet, meteoroid

This is a small icy body that orbits in the solar system and develops a tail of gas as it approaches the sun:

• Asteroid

• Meteoroid

• Comet

• Moon

• Iceberg! Straight Ahead!

Pluto is currently considered a planet.

• True

• False