Solar System and Gravity Review

What planets are known as the terrestrial planets?

According to Newton's laws, what might happen to the Earth if its orbit moved farther away from the Sun?

What property of Earth makes it different from the other terrestrial planets?

The Sun is...

What keeps the moon from crashing into the Earth?

The following has the greatest gravitational force:

What is an icy object that has an orbital path and has a visible tail?

The gravitational pull of the Sun outside our galaxy doesn't exist because it's too far away.

What theory did Albert Einstein introduce to challenge Newton's ideas?

What object in our solar system has the greatest gravitational force?

Which most completely describes the force of gravity between the Sun and Earth?

Gravity on Earth determines:

What are Rogue Planets?

Which ball would have the least amount of gravitational attraction to the red and white ball?

My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos is a pneumonic device to remember what?

What is true about the Oort cloud?

The following are all found outside our Solar System.

All objects in the solar system follow an orbital path...

Which identifies the objects in our solar system that are affected by the force of gravity?

The moon's gravity causes tides on Earth.

According to Einstein, gravity...

Which of these does NOT affect the amount of gravity between a planet and the Sun?

Objects with greater mass have a ____ force of attraction than objects with lesser masses have.

When the Earth completes one revolution of it's orbital path, what is it called?

Our Sun orbits..

What is true of the outer planets, farther away from the sun?

The Earth doesn't get sucked into the Sun because it is moving fast enough not to.

Earth is 0.72 Astronomical Units (AUs) away from the Sun.

Pluto is not considered a planet because..

Everything in our Galaxy orbits the Sun in the same way.