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Celestial Bodies
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1
Objects travel around the sun in the shape of an....
Cylinder
Circle
Objects don't travel around the Sun, they stay in one spot.
Ellipse
2
What celestial body has an elliptical orbit, made of ice with a head and tail?
dwarf planet
meteoroid
comet
asteroid
3
One astronomical unit measures distance between......
Earth and Jupiter
Sun and Jupiter
Earth and Neptune
Sun and Earth
4
Which planet has a day longer than the year?
Venus
Mars
Earth
Mercury
5
The closer focal points are in an ellipse, then the ellipse looks more like a ....
Circular
Cylinder
Squatty Ellipse
6
A light year is used to measure _______________?
age
distance
speed
time
7
Which planets have the shortest length of day?
inner
outer
planets
terrestrial
8
Characteristics of outer planets?
large and rocky
rocky and small
gaseous and large
small and gaseous
9
As objects get farther from the Sun what happens to their orbital speed?
object speeds stay the same
objects get faster
objects get slower
10
A natural satellite ....
Rocket
International Space Station
Space Probe
Moon
11
As the mass of an object increases, the amount of gravity of that object will....
decrease
stay the same
increase
goes away
12
What two factors affect the amount of gravitational pull between objects?
distance and inertia
weight and inertia
mass and inertia
mass and distance
13
What is a meteoroid called when it goes through the atmosphere and HITS Earth?
meteoroid
meteorite
meteor
14
Which planet is tilted on its side?
Jupiter
Neptune
Uranus
Saturn
15
Which axis do you put your Independent Variable on when graphing?
X axis
Y axis
16
Why does the position of Earth in the solar system support life?
Earth is the outer part of the solar system
Earth is the closest planet of the sun
Earth is not too far or close to the sun
Earth is tilted
17
What is Kepler's 3rd Law?
The closer to the sun, the more elliptical the orbit
The farther away from the sun, the more elliptical the orbit
18
Which is larger the solar system or galaxy?
comets
planets
galaxy
solar system
19
What is the driving force of energy throughout the solar system?
Asteroid
Earth
Comets
Sun
20
What do scientists use to measure distances in just OUR solar system?
astronomical units
Light years
solar winds
parsecs
21
Which is larger sun or planets?
Sun
planets
satellites
comets
22
What are the first four planets of our Solar System classified as?
Gas Giants
Asteroids
Rock Giants
Terrestrial
23
What celestial body orbits a star, is spherical, and has cleared out its orbit?
star
dwarf planets
asteroid
planet
24
What would Earth's orbital path look like if the gravitational pull of the Sun does not exists?
path would be round
path would stay the same
path would be ellipitical
path would be straight
25
Which is larger an asteroid or meteoroid?
meteoroid
planet
asteroid
moon
26
Characteristics of inner planets?
large and gaseous
small and rocky
rocky and large
small and gaseous
27
A giant ball of gas mainly composed of hydrogen and helium?
galaxy
Planet
comet
star
28
What is Kepler's 1st Law?
Objects in Solar System travel in cylinders.
Objects in Solar System travel in ellipses.
Objects in Solar System travel in circles.
Objects in Solar System stay in one location.
29
What is Kepler's 2nd Law?
The farther an object is to Sun, the object stops moving.
The farther an object is to the Sun, the faster it travels.
The closer an object is to the Sun, the faster it travels.
The closer an object is to Sun, the slower it travels.
30
An astronomical unit is used to measure ________?
speed
age
distance
time
