Gravity and the Solar System

What is the name of the law that states - Gravity attracts all objects towards one another.

• Kepler's 1st law

• Law of universal gravitation

• Kepler's 2nd law

• Kepler's 3rd law

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The greater the distance between two objects, the ? the pull of gravity

• lesser

• greater

• Stays the same

• Does not change

Two factors effecting the magnitude of the force of gravity between 2 objects are...

• mass and distance 
• mass and matter
• distance and weight 
• weight and mass

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Earth and the other planets closest to the Sun are made mostly of _______

• gas
• metal
• water
• rock

The __________ has planets, moons, comets, and asteroids.

• solar system
• earth
• rotation
• United States

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One of the main differences between the outer and inner planets is __________.

• The inner planets all have water
• the inner planets are much bigger than the outer planets
• the outer planets are gas planets
• the outer planets have rings, and the inner planets don't

Measure of distance used in the solar system is _______

• light year

• Kepler's Third Law

• Astonomical Unit

• Astronimal Meter

The point where any planets' orbit is farthest from the sun.

• perihelion

• equinox

• aphelion

• cold

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The distance from the Earth to the _______is one Atronomical Unit

• sun

• moon

• mercury

• mars

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When a planet orbits the Sun, one of the foci of the elliptical orbit is 

• the axis
• the perihelion
• the center
• the Sun