Solar System Review

What keeps ALL of the objects in motion around our solar system?

Why are meteors called 'shooting stars'?

What planets are larger in size, located outside the asteroid belt, and made of gas?

Where are MOST comets located?

What objects are very small in size, made of rock, and burn up in Earth's atmosphere?

Which planets make up the inner planets?

Which of these solar system objects does NOT orbit the Sun?

What is the largest planet in our solar system?

What TWO things determine how strong gravity's pull is between two objects?

The Sun is mostly made of which 2 gases?

TRUE or FALSE: Comets and Asteroids orbit the Sun

TRUE or FALSE: The Sun is the largest star in the entire universe.

What is the largest object in our solar system?

The time it takes a planet to ORBIT around the Sun ONE time is called a

What is the smallest planet in our solar system?

Which planet has the longest YEAR?

How many Galilean Moons are there?

What objects are made of ice and dust, come from the Kuiper belt, and orbit the Sun?

Where is the asteroid belt located?

What objects can be very large, made of rock, and are located between Mars and Jupiter?

Why does the Moon orbit the Earth, instead of orbiting the Sun?

What planet do the Galilean Moons orbit?

What planets are smaller in size, located inside the asteroid belt, and made of rock?

What determines the length of a planet's orbit?

What causes the 'tail' of the comet?

Which planets make up the outer planets?