The Solar System Unit Assessment

What is beyond the gas giants, and includes Pluto, Charon, and millions of other rocky objects

What keeps the planets, asteroids, and comets in orbit around the Sun?

What does heliocentric mean?

What are the outer planets known as?

What is the name of the many rocky objects (and Pluto) orbiting the sun beyond Neptune?

What is the object orbiting around the outermost planet?

What is in balance to keep the moon in orbit around the Earth?

The sun is classified as a ___________________

What makes the inner planets similar?

Asteroids exist between which two planets?

Hydrogen and helium are the main elements that make up the __________________?

The solar system consists of the Sun, planets and their moons. Which of these are also included

The planets are roughly _________________ in shape and have orbits that are nearly ___________.

What is the name of the rocks orbiting the sun found between Mars and Jupiter?

How do planets move in our solar system?

What happens as comets periodically orbit close to the sun? The comet will ________________.

Which statement is true about the planets, moons, comets and asteroids in the solar system?

Planets change their positions compared to _________________?

Where does the sun fit into the scale of stars?

What does the sun send to the Earth's surface?