General Space
Mass and Gravitational Force
Distance and Gravitational Force
Gravity
Random
100

This is how long it takes for the Earth to make one full revolution.

What is 365 days?

100

According to the chart, this space object is larger.

What are asteroids?

100

Complete the sentence. As distance between objects increases, gravitational force_____________.

What is weakens or decreases?

100

This is the force that keeps the planets in orbit.

What is gravity?
100

Earth's atmosphere lacked this gas that is necessary for life to exist as we know it today.

What is oxygen?

200

This is the largest star in our solar system.

What is the sun?

200

This space object has the smallest mass.


What is Chelyabinsk meteoroid?

200

Explain why the gravitational pull of the Sun is stronger on Earth than it is on Pluto.

Because the Earth is closer to the sun and Pluto is further away.

200

According to the chart, this planet has the most gravity. 

What is Earth?

200

Which layer is the youngest, C or F?

What is C?

300
For an observer in Nebraska, the sun appears to move across the sky in this general path. Hint: East to west, west to east, north to south, or south to north.

What is east to west?

300

This space object has the greatest mass.

What is Vesta?

300

If Earth were twice as far from the Sun, how would the Sun's gravitational pull on Earth change?

Gravitational pull would decrease.

300

This planet has the weakest gravitational force.

What is Uranus?

300

This structure, homologous or analogous, has the same function but different structures.

What is analogous?

400
Which best explains why stars look like points of light from Earth.

1. Stars are much smaller in size compared to Earth.

2. Stars have less gravitational attraction.

3. Earth is a great distance from those stars.



3. Earth is a great distance from those stars.

400

Complete the relationship. As mass decreases, gravitational force________________.

What is decreases?

400

This is the the thing in our solar system with the strongest gravitational force.

What is the sun?
400

This is how long it takes for Earth to make one full rotation.

What is 24 hours?

500

The photograph below shows an object in space that has an icy core with a tail of gas and dust extending for millions of kilometers.Is it a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid?

What is a comet?

500

Place these in order from least gravitational force to greatest gravitational force.

What is Trappist-1e, Proxima Centauri b, Kepler-22b, and 55 Cancri e?

500

Make a claim about the relationship between force and distance using this chart.

Either:

As distance decreases, force increases or

As force increases, distance decreases.

500

According to the diagram, this has the greatest gravitational force. Earth, sun, or they are equal forces.

What is they are equal forces.

500

This is the name for the path that a planet takes around the sun.

What is orbit?

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