Our Solar System

refers/includes the sun and all the celestial bodies that orbit the sun

• Space station

• solar system

• galaxy

• gravitational

Select all that apply: what does our solar system consist of

• 8 planets

• more than 100 moons

• comets/asteroids/ meteors

• 2 suns

• dwarf planets

an object in the sky that send (emits) its own light

• star

• asteroid

• planet

• meteroid

Another name for Inner planets is called ​ ​ (a)   .

• terrestrial
• Celestial
• Gaseous
• Heliocentric
• thermodynamic

a medium size star at the center of our solar system

• comet

• universe

• sun

• metoroid

Large chunks of ice and dust that orbit the sun.

• Comet

• Dwarf Planet

• asteroids

• meteoroids

Outer planets are called gas giants because

• they are made out of solid rock

• they do not have solid surface

rocky objects revolving around the sun that are too small and too numerous to be considered planets; mainly found between the obits of Mars and Jupiter

• comets

• meteroids

• asteroids

• planets

the region of the solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, where many asteroids are found

• sun

• constellation

• asteroid belt

Chunks of rock or dust IN SPACE (come from comets and asteroids)

• comets

• meteor

• meteorite

• meteoroid