Earth Science Unit 4 Lesson 2 Quiz

Which object has the greatest eccentricity in its orbit?

Kepler’s first law, the orbit of a planet is an ellipse with what object at or near the focus?

What is the shape that an ellipse forms?

Keplers 2nd law says that equal areas are covered in equal amounts of time when an object does?

Kepler’s 3rd law states which property of motion?

Which law describes the speed at which objects travel at different points in their orbits?

What does Kepler’s first law call the paths that planets follow as they orbit the sun?

Moon has a gravity of -9.81m/s^2

What is happening to the orbital velocity of Earth as it gets closer to the sun?

What effect does the elliptical orbit of the moon around Earth have?