Expert: Ed - 2/4/2008

Question
The asteriod belt is located between the orbits of

A. Earth and Mars
B. Jupiter and Saturn
C. Mars and Jupiter
D. Saturn and Uranus

Answer
Erica,

You should be able to do this!  I think there's a classroom of kids out there somehwere, where they all recently decided to get me to do all their science homework.  I've had a real flood of questions the past couple of weeks, and often they are very similar.  I hope you aren't part of it.

But anyway, I remember what it's like to be lost in class, so I'll help.

Maybe you are having trouble googling the answer because you are spelling ASTEROID wrong.  Look at the way I just spelled it.  It's asteroid ending in O I D, not ending in I O D.  In your question, you spelled it wrong.

If you google all these words: asteroid belt between orbits planets, you should find some links explaining that the answer is C, Mars and Jupiter.  Look for a NASA website, if you need to tell your teacher where you found the answer.  They will appreciate that more than if you tell them you got the answer on AllExperts.  There should be some NASA websites in your first page or two of google hits.

You can do this stuff!  Online research is not hard.  Just look for a few words in the question that stick out in your brain, and if you google them all, you can usually get the answer really fast.  I wish we had google when I was a kid.

I'm just trying to help you so you can answer questions like this on your own, in the future.

Keep Looking Up!
--Ed