The Solar System Formation

Formation of Solar System SES1.a

 I can explain the nebular hypothesis. (Knowledge)

Multiple Choice

Most scientists believe the Big Bang Theory explains which of the following questions?

• How our planets and moons formed

• How our universe began

• How the sun turns hydrogen into helium

• How fast light travels through space

Multiple Choice

Nebula's are mixtures of gases and what?

• clouds
• stars
• tiny particles
• dust

Multiple Choice

A cloud of gas and dust from which bodies in space are formed

• photosphere
• nebula
• solar flare
• Sunspot

Lets See What Happens Next

• Send 1 person from your table to get some water out of the fountain.

• Pour the water into your bowl.

• Sprinkle Styrofoam into the bowl.

• Use the stick to rotate in one direction.

• Observe.

• Share.

• Clean Up (5 Mins)!!

Were You Listening??

Go to Google Classroom and complete the Nebular Hypothesis Drag and Drop Activity. Work Independently! We will review our answers as a class!

Multiple Choice

The hypothesis stating that the solar system evolve from a rotating gaseous cloud that turned into a disk like form creating a central mass which formed the sun and eventually the planets and the moon.

• Steady State theory

• Big Bang Theory

• Nebular Hypothesiss

• Oscillating universe

Multiple Choice

A nebula is:

• A cloud of ice
• A cloud of dust and gas
• A cloud of just gas
• A cloud of just dust

Multiple Choice

A nebula collapses down into a disk known called:

• A compact disk

• An irregular cloud

• An protostellar disk

• An circular disk

Multiple Choice

A nebula starts to collapse because of:

• A nearby star shining it's light
• A passing spaceship
• A passing comet
• Gravity

Multiple Choice

As a nebula collapses it also begins:

• Expand
• Rotate
• Shake
• Turn to ice

Multiple Choice

What forms in the very center of the accretion disk?

• A protostar

• A planet

• A protoplanet

• A planetesimal

Multiple Choice

Intense pressure in the protosun (protostar) caused:

• Fire in the Sun to start
• Helium to break down into Hydrogen
• Nuclear Fusion to start
• Nuclear Fusion to end

Multiple Choice

What happens during nuclear fusion in the sun?

• oxygen nuclei combine to form helium

• Helium nuclei combine to form oxygen

• helium nuclei combine to form hydrogen

• hydrogen nuclei combine to form helium

Multiple Choice

What is forming in the accretion disk away from the center?

• Light
• Protostars
• Planetesimals
• Hydrogen

Multiple Choice

The order of the formation of the solar system: 
Solar nebula - protostellar disk- nuclear fusion - sun - planetesimals - planets

• True
• False