Big Bang
Models of the Solar System
Planets
Gravity & Inertia
CAM
100

What does the Big Bang theory state?

What is that the universe started off as a single point (singularity) that expanded and expanded to the size that it is now?

100

What are the names of the two models of the solar system?

What is geocentric and heliocentric?

100

How many planets are in our solar system?

What is 8?

100

What two factors affect the gravitational pull?

What is mass and distance?

100

What is the name of a small, irregularly shaped, rocky object that orbits the sun?

What is asteroid?

200

When did the Big Bang occur?

What is 13-15 billion years ago?

200

What object is at the center of the Geocentric model of the solar system?

What is the EARTH?

200

What is the largest planet?

What is Jupiter?

200

Which pair would have a stronger gravitational pull?

A. Two students in the same school

B. Two students in the same classroom

What is (B) two students in the same classroom?

200

What (2) places do comets live in the solar system?

What is Kuiper Belt/Oort Cloud?

300

"Our universe is still expanding." Is this statement true or false?

What is TRUE?

300

Who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system?

What is Copernicus?

300

Which (2) terrestrial planets have a slower period of rotation than Earth?

What is Mercury and Venus?

300

Which pair would have a stronger gravitational pull?

A. Bear

B. Puppy

What is (A) a bear?

300

What is a space rock called when it is burning in Earth's atmosphere?

What is METEOR?

400

Which formed first: galaxies or solar systems?

What is galaxies?

400

What object is at the center of the Heliocentric model?

What is the SUN?

400
What is the coldest planet?

What is Uranus?

400

What would happen if the planets did not have inertia?

What is the planets would get pulled into the Sun's core?

400

Where is the Asteroid Belt?

What is between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?

500

True or False: Our solar system is located in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

What is FALSE?

500

"The geocentric model of the solar system is the correct model that we recognize today." Is this statement true or false?

What is FALSE?

500

Mercury, Venus, Earth, & Mars travel around the Sun faster than Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune travel around the Sun slower. Why is this?

What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, & Mars are closer to the Sun than the gas giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune), so they travel faster around the Sun?

500

What would happen if the Sun did not have a gravitational pull on the Earth?

What is the planets would go off into space in a straight line?

500

What is the MAIN similarity between comets, asteroids, and meteroids?

What is they all orbit the Sun?

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