Assessment Sheet - The Planets

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Section 1

STUDENT RESOURCE 1.6

Assessment

ASSESSMENT SHEET

Vocabulary

Write the term on the line that describes each object.

Ceres is a rocky object with an orbit between Mars and

Jupiter.

Hale-Bopp is made of ice and grows a tail when it passes

near the Sun.

Planets in the Sky

The two maps show objects in the sky six months apart.

Which object is a planet? Circle it in both maps.

Explain how you knew that the object was a planet.

Scale Models

Jupiter has over sixty moons. The diameters of two of them

are listed here.

Metis: 40 kilometers

Thebe: 100 kilometers

Use the metric ruler to draw scale models of Metis and

Thebe. Draw them on the back of this paper. Use a scale of

1 millimeter equals 1 kilometer (1 mm = 1 km). (Hint: How

many millimeters wide is Metis, using this scale?)

EXPLORING SPACE • SECTION 1 THE PLANETS

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