Hodge Podge
Planets Extra
Forces and more
Solar System (unh hunh)
Potpourri
100
The only planet currently capable of supporting life
Earth
100
The sun and all of the bodies that orbit the sun.
Solar System
100
All objects are attracted to each other by the force of ?
Gravity
100
Our sun is made mostly of
what is hydrogen
100
The sun and all of the bodies that orbit the sun.
What is the Solar System?
200
Model that used Earth as the center,
Geocentric
200
The smallest Gas giant planet
Neptune
200
The strength of gravity depends mainly on
mass and distance
200
Our yellow dwarf star will expand into a ________
Red Giant
200
The northern hemisphere has this season when tilted away from the sun
winter
300
The largest (confirmed) planet
Jupiter
300
The hottest planet
Venus
300
The tendency of an object to resist a change in its motion
inertia
300
After our star blows off its red giant shell, it will become a ___________
white dwarf
300
A body that orbits a another is a ___________
satellite
400
The planet covered with ferrous oxide
Mars
400
Rotates 90o on its axis
Uranus
400
The two main forces that keep Earth and the moon in their orbits
gravity and inertia
400
What kind of star is our star?
Yellow Dwarf
400
Earth has seasons because
It's axis is tilted as it moves around the sun
500
The orbit of a planet or other body around the sun is an ellipse, and the sun is one focus of the ellipse is known as
What is Kepler's First Law?
500
Inner planets are also called
terrestrial planets
500
Our current model of the solar system
Heliocentric
500
When our star finally runs out of fuel it will turn into a __________.
Brown Dwarf
500
Who first calculated the circumference of the earth.
Eratosthenes
600
which term best describes the shape of the orbits of planets in our solar system?
Ecliptical
600
Which of the following has the least moons?
Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Uranus
Mars
600
What role did gravity play in forming the sun?
Gravity caused the solar nebula to collapse toward the center, causing the center of thesun to be dense and hot.
600
This force is a force that makes a body follow a curved path
Centripetal
600
Which configuration will result in the greatest gravitational force?
- small masses close together
- large masses close together
1. large masses close together (the larger the mass + the closer the distance = the mos amount oft gravity.
700
In what order would you put Ceres, Pluto, and Eris from fastest to slowest?
Ceres, Pluto, Eris
700
A small, irregularly shaped body made of rock or organic material that orbits the sun?
Astroid
700
Which of these objects is pictured in the diagram?
A comet
700
What is a shooting star, really?
A meteoroid that burns up in Earth’s atmosphere
700
Where is the Oort cloud located?
beyond the orbit of Pluto