Quiz #4: Planets, Stars, & Asteroids

Quiz on planets, stars, asteroids, comets, meteors, & dwarf planets!

Directions It is expected that all the answers to your questions will be IN YOUR OWN WORDS. It is not acceptable to copy paste your answers from another website, or to look up answers as you are taking the quiz.If you are unsure of your answers or realize you did not learn something, you may go back to watch the videos again, and then take the quiz. Match the terms to the correct category. Rocky Planet Mercury Venus Earth Mars smaller Gas Giant Jupiter Saturn Neptune Uranus bigger Match the Vocabulary Word to the Definition comet An icy ball that contains rock and travels in an elliptical orbit around the sun. asteroid Chunks of rocks and metal that orbit around the sun. meteor A small body of matter from outer space that enters the Earth’s atmosphere appearing as a streak of light. dwarf planet A round object in space that travels around a star and has NOT cleared the space around it; smaller than a regular planet. planet A large round object in space that travels around a star and has enough gravity to clear the space around it.