Planets
This planet is the closest planet to the sun.
What is Mercury?
The sun is made of these two elements.
What is hydrogen and helium?
All Objects are attracted to each other by this force.
What is gravity?
This is Newton's First Law of Motion
An object at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion with a constant speed and direction, unless acted upon by a force.
What is Ms. Capino's favorite color?
Olive green
These planets are considered the "Gas Giants"
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
This is the layer of the sun's atmosphere that gives it a reddish-orange color.
What is the chromosphere?
The strength of gravity is due to these two factors.
The mass of the objects and the distance between the objects.
This is Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
Every object in the universe attracts every other object
What is Newton's full name?
Sir Issac Newton
This unit measures a planet's distance from the sun.
What is an AU (astronomical unit)?
This model of the solar system is a sun-centered model.
What is the heliocentric model?
True or False: The mass of an object can change depending on its location.
False: The weight of an object can change depending on its location.
The strength of gravity (increases/decreases) as the masses of the objects decreases.
Decreases
What would weigh more: a pound of bricks, or a pound of feathers?
They would weigh the same (1 pound)
This planet is also called "Earth's Evil Twin"
What is Venus?
This type of eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly between the Earth and the Sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
Objects with more mass tend to have (more or less) inertia.
More
The strength of gravity (increases/decreases) as the distance of the objects decreases.
increases
These forces on Earth cause objects in motion to slow and come to a stop.
What is gravity and friction?
This planet has a storm 3x the size of Earth.
What is Jupiter and the Great Red Spot?
The Earth orbits around the Sun due to these two forces.
What is inertia and gravity?
This is a household item you can use to measure the strength of gravity.
What is a scale/what is weight?
The tendency of a moving object to continue moving in a straight line or a stationary object to remain in place is called _________.
Inertia
Explain how gravity and inertia keeps the Moon orbiting the Earth
Inertia keeps the Moon moving in a forward direction, but gravity bends the path to become an elliptical orbit.