Gravity LDC

Question 1

Which is one way to make the Earth take longer to orbit the sun?

Accepted Answer

Make the sun smaller

Question 2

What was the name of the could that formed our proto-sun?

Accepted Answer

Molecular Cloud

Question 3

What did the tube represent in the spinning washer lab?

Accepted Answer

The sun

Question 4

What happened to the "planet" in the spinning washer lab when we pulled it closer to the tube?

Accepted Answer

It spun faster

Question 5

If you make the sun and earth farther from each other, gravity would...

Accepted Answer

Decrease

Question 6

What grade should EVERYONE get on their Gravity essay?

Accepted Answer

90-100%

Question 7

What did the vermiculite lab teach us about gravity?

Accepted Answer

Gravity pulled most of the matter toward the center

Question 8

In which activity did we create a Solar Nebula Disk

Accepted Answer

Vermiculite Lab

Question 9

Which is responsible for the birth of our universe?

Accepted Answer

The Big Bang

Question 10

Which is the correct order for the formation of our solar system?

Accepted Answer

Big bang, sun formed, inner planets made, outer planets made

Question 11

Which two factors can affect the strength of gravity?

Accepted Answer

Size and Distance

Question 12

Which is a limitation of the spinning washer lab?

Accepted Answer

Gravity is invisible, not a string

Question 13

In the spinning washer lab, the closer the planet...

Accepted Answer

The faster the orbital velocity

Question 14

In the spinning marble lab, the cup represented...

Accepted Answer

The force of gravity

Question 15

Which word is a cloud of interstellar gas and dust?

Accepted Answer

Nebula

Question 16

What was one limitation of the vermiculite lab?

Accepted Answer

We could stop the "gravity"

Question 17

Why did the vermiculite in the bucket eventually stop spinning?

Accepted Answer

We stopped creating the force

Question 18

How long will our gravity essay be?

Accepted Answer

4-5 paragraphs

Question 19

Which is one way to make the moon go around the Earth in a bigger orbit?

Accepted Answer

Make the Earth smaller

Question 20

In the spinning washer lab, the closer the planet...

Accepted Answer

The shorter the period of revolution

Question 21

Which of Kepler's laws is this? "Planets orbit the sun in an elliptical orbit"

Accepted Answer

Kepler's First Law

Question 22

Why did the washer take longer to orbit when the string was longer in the spinning washer lab?

Accepted Answer

The distance was farther and gravity was weaker

Question 23

What was one limitation of the marble activity?

Accepted Answer

It only shows one planet's motion

Question 24

If you make the sun bigger, gravity would...

Accepted Answer

Increase

Question 25

Which word explains the process where dust and rock particles collided and clumped together?

Accepted Answer

Accretion

Question 26

When we lifted the cup in the spinning marble lab, what happened?

Accepted Answer

The marble shot out in a straight line

Question 27

What is a planetesimal?

Accepted Answer

a small body in space that may become a planet

Gravity LDC

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