Solar System 3

Made of rock and is orbiting the sun

• asteroid

• comet

• the moon

• meteorite

Made of ice and rock and has a tail that vaporized by the sun

• asteroid

• comet

• the moon

• meteorite

When a meteoroid burns up in our atmosphere

• comet

• meteor

• meteorite

• asteroid

Region between Mars and Jupiter where most asteroids are found

• Kuiper Belt

• Oort Cloud

• Asteroid Belt

• Terrestrial

The orbit of one object around another. On Earth, this is one year

• Rotation

• Revolution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

The spinning of a planet on its axis. On Earth, this is 24 hours

• Rotation

• Revolution

Polish astronomer that proposed the heliocentric model

• Aristotle

• Einstein

• Copernicus

• Newton

The sun-centered model of the solar system

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

An area beyond the orbit of Neptune that contains Pluto

• Kuiper Belt

• Asteroid Belt

• Oort Cloud

• Terrestrial

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars...also known as "rocky" planets

• Gas giants

• Terrestrial

• Dwarf