Our Solar system: Remembering what we have learned!

Question 1

Which of the following is closest to the Earth?

Accepted Answer

the Sun

Question 2

If the daylight hours are short and the sun is low in the sky, what season is it in Missouri?

Accepted Answer

winter

Question 3

Venus's day is longer than its year. What does this tell you?

Accepted Answer

Venus revolves faster than it rotates.

Question 4

In the northern hemisphere, during the summer, the Earth is tilting______________ the sun.

Accepted Answer

toward

Question 5

Two objects are moving toward each other. What happens to the force of gravity between them?

Accepted Answer

increases

Question 6

What happens to the force of gravity between two objects if their mass increases?

Accepted Answer

increases

Question 7

All planets rotate on their axis and revolve around the sun.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

All planets have the same period of revolution.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

A rotation is to a revolutiion as a

Accepted Answer

day is to a year

Question 10

During winter, the axis of the Earth is tilted ___________ from the sun.

Accepted Answer

away

Question 11

Object X orbits around object Y. What does this tell you?

Accepted Answer

Y has more mass than X

Question 12

Inertia causes planets to travel in a _______ path while gravity causes the path to ________.

Accepted Answer

straight/become curved

Question 13

The measured (actual) force of gravity acting on an object is defined as

Accepted Answer

weight

Question 14

The amount of matter in an object is defined as its

Accepted Answer

mass

Question 15

The force of attraction between any two objects that have mass is defined as

Accepted Answer

gravity

Question 16

Which of the following planets have the most similar orbital speed? (Period of Revolution.)

Accepted Answer

Venus & Earth

Question 17

The definition of a "year" is________

Accepted Answer

the time for a planet to revolve once.

Question 18

All planets rotate in the same direction and have at least one moon.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

The idea that Mars may once have had the conditions necessary to support life is based on

Accepted Answer

patterns on the surface look like dried streams..

Question 20

The solar system is held together by _______________.

Accepted Answer

gravity

Question 21

When looking down at the Earth from above the North Pole, it spins in a _____ direction.

Accepted Answer

counterclockwise

Question 22

Most of the planets in our solar system orbit the sun in an ____________ shape.

Accepted Answer

elliptical

Question 23

Earth has "seasons" because it _________.

Accepted Answer

is tilted as it revolves around the sun

Question 24

If scientists discover an object orbiting a distant star, the object is most likely

Accepted Answer

a planet

Question 25

What season is it in the northern hemisphere if there is more sunlight than darkness?

Accepted Answer

summer

Question 26

The definition of a "day" is __________.

Accepted Answer

the time for a planet to rotate once.

Question 27

An astronaut weighs less on the moon than on Earth because

Accepted Answer

the moon's gravity is less.

Question 28

If the Sun began to rise in the west and set in the east, which of the following would be true?

Accepted Answer

Earth is rotating clockwise.

Our Solar system: Remembering what we have learned!

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Our Solar system: Remembering what we have learned!

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