1. Solar System Review

2. Write your answers on your whiteboard as we go over it.
Solar System Review
Write your answers on your whiteboard as we go over it.

3. A large object that moves around a star.
What is a planet?

4. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune & Pluto
What are the outer planets?

5. Burning sphere of gases
What is a star?

6. Closest planet to the sun. It is rocky and full of craters.
What is Mercury?

7. Imaginary line that Earth rotates around
What is an axis?

8. Instrument used to observe a distant object
What is a telescope?

9. Path an object takes when revolving around another object
What is an orbit?

10. Mercury, Venus, Earth, & Mars
What are the inner planets?

11. Movement of Earth around the sun
What is revolution?

12. I am known for my beautiful rings made up of bits of ice and rock that revolve around the planet.
What is Saturn?

13. An ASTEROID BECOMES THIS WHEN IT ENTERS THE EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE
An ASTEROID BECOMES THIS WHEN IT ENTERS THE EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE. Also known as a shooting star.
What is a meteor?

14. I AM THE 7TH PLANET FROM THE SUN. I am called the sideways planet.
What is Uranus?

15. Spinning movement of the Earth
What is rotation?

16. I am more than 2 billion miles from earth. It is the last planet.
What is Neptune?

17. Small mass of ice and dust that orbits the sun
What is a comet?

18. I am the hottest planet. The surface of me is covered with thick clouds that trap heat.
What is Venus?

19. Name for the outer planets, except for Pluto
What are the gas giants?

20. The object that orbits around the Earth
What is the moon?

21. I am the 4th planet from the sun. I am known as the red planet.
What is Mars?

22. The largest planet. This planet has two red spots.
What is Jupiter?

23. The STAR AT THE CENTER OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
What is the Sun?

24. Objects in a “belt” between Mars & Jupiter
What is an asteroid?

25. The only planet known to produce oxygen
The only planet known to produce oxygen. Also known as the “water planet”
What is Earth?

26. Changes in the apparent shape of the moon
What are phases?