Exploring the Structure of the Solar System

Question 1

All planets in the solar system orbit the sun in the same direction.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

What are rocky bodies that orbit larger bodies called?

Accepted Answer

Moons

Question 3

What are the two main chemical elements that the sun is filled with?

Accepted Answer

hydrogen, helium

Question 4

What are measurements that compare a size or distance to something else?

Accepted Answer

Relative meausurements

Question 5

What do scientists use to understand the events that formed the solar system billions of years ago?

Accepted Answer

Technology

Question 6

How long ago did the solar system form?

Accepted Answer

4.6 billion years ago

Question 7

What are measurements that measure an exact distance or size?

Accepted Answer

Absolute measurements

Question 8

All objects in space are moving relative to each other.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

What is a star system?

Accepted Answer

groupings of a star and orbiting planets

Question 10

What’s the largest single object in the solar system?

Accepted Answer

Sun

Question 11

What shape are the planets arranged in around the sun?

Accepted Answer

disk

Question 12

What galaxy is home to Earth and our solar system?

Accepted Answer

Milky way

Question 13

What do the planets in our solar system follow paths or orbits around?

Accepted Answer

Sun

Question 14

What determines the strength of an object’s gravitational field?

Accepted Answer

Mass

Question 15

What are chunks of dust & ice that orbit the sun called?

Accepted Answer

Comets

Question 16

What does each planet rotate on?

Accepted Answer

Axis

Question 17

What are small rocky or metallic bodies that revolve around the sun called?

Accepted Answer

Asteroids

Question 18

What two planets are known as the Gas Giants?

Accepted Answer

Jupiter, Saturn

Question 19

What are the Inner Planets also known as?

Accepted Answer

Terrestrial Planets

Question 20

What two planets are known as the Ice Giants?

Accepted Answer

Uranus, Neptune

Questions 20