The asteroid belt is located between which two planets?

• A. Between Earth and Mars
• B. Between Mars and Jupiter
• C. Between Venus and Earth
• D. Between Jupiter and Saturn

Answer: (B)

This question tests how the solar system is laid out and where the main grouping of rocky bodies sits. The asteroid belt is a broad ring of rocky objects that orbit the Sun between the inner, rocky planets and the gas giant Jupiter—specifically between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It forms because Jupiter’s strong gravity prevented these bodies from merging into a planet during the solar system’s formation, so they remained as a belt of separate objects. The other options place you inside the orbits of the inner planets (Earth–Mars or Venus–Earth) or beyond Jupiter toward Saturn, which is not where the belt lies. So, the belt sits between Mars and Jupiter.