The Solar System

What's an asteroid?

• rocks that can be as large as a planet to as small as a grain of sand

• rocks that can be as large as a pot to as small as a frying pan

• rocks that can be as large as a planet to as small as a molecule

• Teacher, what's a asteroid?

What is a meteoroid?

• rocky or mitallic particles

• rocky or rough particles

• the harder version of a comet

• Teacher, what's a meteoroid?

What is a comet?

• a ball of mostly ice that moves around in outer space

• a sphere of fire that moves quickly about space

• a tailed rock made of blue stuff

• Teacher, what's a comet?

What does NOT orbit around the sun?

• a planet

• a meteoroid

• a mitillic ice block that might just move in space

• Teacher, what does orbit mean again?

What does a solar system consist of?

• a sun

• a planet

• a pluto

• Teacher, what's a solar system?

What is orbit?

• the path taken by planet as goes arounds it's sun

• the path a moon takes as it decompresses

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• Teacher, what's a "orbit"?

What are the Inner Planets? (put them in order)

What are the Outer Planets? (put them in order)

What do astronomers call the Inner Planets?

Astronomers call the Inner Planets the Terrestrial Planets because of their _______________.