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What is an AU equal to?
Distance to the asteroid belt
Average distance between earth and mars
Average distance between earth and sun
Average distance between earth and moon
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What is the largest planet in the solar system?
Mercury
Neptune
Saturn
Jupiter
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What was the dependent variable in our water accretion lab?
Height marble dropped
Distance marble fell
Diameter of water droplet
Diameter of crater
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Which planet has the fastest winds?
Jupiter
Uranus
Earth
Neptune
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What are asteroids?
Meteoroids
Leftover debris from the formation of the solar system
Chunks of ice
Meteorites
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What do we call the theory of our solar system formation?
Solar System Theory
Fusion Theory
Big Bang Theory
Nebular Theory
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What does NEOs stand for?
Next Earthly Objects
Near Earth Objects
New Earth Orbits
Near Earth Orbits
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What does the heliocentric model explain?
The Earth is at the center of the solar system.
The Milky Way is at the Center of our Solar System.
The Sun is at the center of the solar system.
Helium is at the center of the solar system.
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What planet is the hottest?
Earth
Mercury
Pluto
Venus
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What is this a picture of?
Asteroid
Meteorite
Meteor
Meteoroid
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What does AU stand for?
Astronomy Unit
Axial Unit
Axis Unit
Astronomical Unit
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Which of these is the name for the rock actually hitting earth's surface?
asteroid
meteor
meteorite
meteoroid
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How many tails do comets have?
2
4
1
3
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What two planets do you find the asteroid belt between?
Jupiter and Neptune
Mars and Jupiter
Mercury and Venus
Jupiter and Saturn
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When our sun became a sun, what process started to create its energy?
Nebular Motion
Shining
Accretion Disc
Nuclear Fusion
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What is thought to have brought water and organic materials to earth?
Meteoroids
Comets
Asteroids
All of the Above
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Question: Will I get out of bed faster when I wake up to music instead of an alarm? What would my Independent Variable?
Style of music
Music vs Alarm
Time to get out of bed
None of the above
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How long ago did our solar system form?
12 million years ago
14.6 billion years ago
4.6 billion years ago
66,000 years ago
