Vocabulary
The shape of an orbital path
What is an ellipse
Imaginary line that passes through the earth at the north and south poles
What is the axis
What is the Earth's path as it revolves around the sun
What is an orbit
True or false: Planets closer to the sun have much shorter periods than planets that are farther from the su/n
True
True or False
When it is day time in France, it is night time in other countries
A greater _______________ and _________ will produce more electricity in a generator.
What are number of coils and speed of the coils spinning?
Between which two planets is the asteroid belt located?
What is between Mars and Jupiter?
One revolution around the sun takes how long?
What is 365 days or 1 year
At the start of the solar system ______ pulled matter in space to the center and formed what we know as the sun.
What is gravity?
The earth is divided into the northern and southern _____________________.
What are hemispheres
An objects mass and the force of gravity work together to produce this.
What is weight?
Time for one rotation
What is 24 hours
The speed of the earth's revolution
What is 68,000 miles per hour
Daily Double!! First group to get the correct answer will earn 2000 points!!! Second will get 1000. Third will get 500 and fourth will get nothing.
A planet has a mass of 2.6 x 1024 kg and another has a mass of 9.17 x 1022 kg. Calculate the force of gravity in Newton's if the distance between the planets is 6.35 x 108 m.
3.94 x 1019 N
Two factors that influence Gravitational Force are this and this.
What are distance from the sun and mass of the object.
Free-falling object near the Earth's surface gain downward speed at a faster and faster rate according to the _______________ _____________.
What is gravity acceleration
The Earth spins in this direction
What is counterclockwise
The earth's axis is tilted and when the earth revolves, it causes the four ____________
What is seasons
600 point question
The larger mass of a planet the larger this.
What is gravitational pull?
Time a planet takes to complete one orbit around another object
What is an orbital period
Two things that rotation causes
What is day and night
What is shorter and longer
Which of Kepler's laws go into detail about orbital period? Explain the law
3rd law, It explains that the planets closer to the sun take a shorter amount of time to revolve around the sun and the planets further away, take longer
This process occurs in the outer core of the earth, moving charged particles though molten metal creating a magnetic field.
What is convection?