Universe and Solar System Review

Mixture of frozen gases and dust particles; revolve around the Sun; a.k.a. "Dirty Snowballs"

• Comets

• Moons

• Asteroids

• Meteors

Today, satellites are mainly used for-

• imaging and communications

• orbiting the Earth

• finding life outside our Solar System

• balancing the force of gravity

Natural satellites of planets are

• moons

• meteoroids

• planets

• comets

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Small rocky or metallic objects that travel in space

• meteoroids

• comets

• meteors

• meteorites

Large, rocky objects that orbit in a large ring between Mars and Jupiter

• asteroids

• comets

• meteoroids

• dust

Small rocky bodies that orbit the sun; resemble planets; we know of Pluto and four others

• dwarf planets

• planets

• moons

• comets

A meteoroid that has entered our atmosphere; "shooting star"

• meteor

• meteoroid

• meteorite

• comet

Large, natural objects that orbit a star; have a clear orbit around the Sun; some are rocky others are made up mostly of gasses

• planets

• asteroids

• moons

• comets

A meteor that has survived the passage through the atmosphere and landed on Earth

• meteorite

• meteoroid

• meteor

• comet

Smallest planet

• Venus

• Mercury

• Neptune

• Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3