Origins of The Solar System Test Review

Natural processes that depends on dramatic and unlikely events is a catastrophic hypothesis.

The oldest rock crystals found on Earth are about ____ years old.

Small, rocky worlds; most lie between Mars and Jupiter and are known as meteoroids

Proposal that the planets formed from the same cloud of gas and dust that formed the sun is the solar nebula theory.

The passing star mechanism of the origin of the solar system was proposed by

Which of the following observations would support the solar nebula theory over the passing star hypothesis?

Proposal that the solar system formed from a rotating cloud of gas is nebular hypothesis

The nebular theory of the origin of the solar system was proposed by

Small, dense, rocky, Earth-like planets are the Jovian planets

The age of the solar system is believed to be approximately 4.6 billion years old based on the data from

The planets all lie in nearly the same plane resulting in a disk-like structure. This structure exists because

Natural events that involves gradual changes as opposed to sudden catastrophic changes is called evolutionary hypothesis

An object that enters Earth's atmosphere and becomes very hot due to friction between the object and Earth's atmosphere

The condensation sequence suggests that ____ should condense closest to the sun.

Which observation supports the solar nebula theory of the origin of the solar system?

Accretion among the grains in the solar nebula would have been aided by

Large diameter, low density gas planets are terrestrial planets.

Which one of the following present-day objects is most like the planetesimals that formed in the solar nebula?

A meteor in space before it enters Earth's atmosphere is called a meteoroid

A small bit of matter heated by friction to incandescent vapor as it falls into Earth's atmosphere is a meteor

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the terrestrial planets?

Collection of icy planetesimals that orbit in a region from just beyond Neptune out to about 50 AU is the Kuiper belt.

A meteor that has survived its passage through the atmosphere and strikes the ground is a meteorite

Small icy bodies that orbit the sun and produce tails of gas and dust when they near the sun are meteors.

Part of the current atmosphere of Earth is believed to be