Solar System and Beyond Review

________________ are small objects made up of iron, rock, carbon that orbit around the sun. 

• Meteors
• Comets
• Asteroids

The tail of a comet points towards the sun

• True
• False

A ________________ is a meteoroid that hits Earth's surface. 

• Large Meteoroid
• Comet
• Meteor
• Meteorite

Meteors are often called shooting stars

• True 
• False 

The Asteroid Belt is located between......

• Mars and Jupiter
• Neptune and Pluto
• Earth and Venus

Comets originate in the ________________.

• Asteroid Belt
• Sun
• Oort Cloud

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Jupiter are the inner planets

• True
• False

Mars is a gaseous planet

• True
• False

A force of attraction between any two objects is called _____________.

• static electricity 
• rotation
• gravity
• orbit

What is a planet?

• a swirling ball of gases
• a star
• a huge ball made out of rock
• a large object that orbits a star