Solar System, Stars and Weather

How are the inner planets similar to each other? (Select all that apply)

• Small

• Dense

• Rocky surfaces

• Gas surfaces

What if you lived on Mars, how does its orbit around the sun make things different for you?

• Colder because we are farther from the sun

• Warmer because we are closer to the sun

What if you lived on Mars, how does its orbit around the sun make things different for you?

• Shorter orbit = shorter year

• Longer orbit = longer year

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

How are the gas giants similar to each other? (Select all that apply)

• Made up of hydrogen and helium

• No solid surfaces

• Rocky surfaces

• Closer to the sun

List the planets in order starting from the sun.

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

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

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

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

What if we lived on a gas giant, how would things be different?

• No rocky surface or oxygen

• Hard rocky surface

What if we lived on a gas giant, how would things be different?

• Year would be much longer

• Year would be much shorter

What if we lived on a gas giant, how would things be different?

• Cold with much greater gravity

• Warm with much less gravity

What characteristics are used to classify stars? (Select all that apply)

• Size

• Brightness

• Temperature

• Distance from sun

Rank the colors of stars from hottest to coolest.

• Blue, white, yellow, orange/red, red

• Blue, yellow, white, orange/red, red

• Red, orange/red, white, yellow, blue

• Red, orange/red, yellow, white, blue