Origins of The Solar System Test Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Large diameter, low density gas planets are terrestrial planets.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Part of the current atmosphere of Earth is believed to be

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

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

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

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

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