Unit 2 ESS Review

Foucault's pendulum provided evidence that....

• Earth rotates

• Earth revolves around the sun

• Earth has an elliptical orbit

• Earth's axis tilts

The event which began the universe was the...

• Milky Way

• black hole

• big bang

• electromagnetic spectrum

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Small natural bodies that orbit planets are called..

• comets

• moons

• planetesimals

• protoplanets

Which of the following is not true of all the inner planets?

• they are made of solid rock

• they are called gas giants

• they do not have rings

• they have impact craters

Impact craters are caused by....

• solar bursts

• atmospheric changes

• exploding volcanoes

• collisions with objects in space

Which of the following planets experiences a runaway greenhouse effect?

• Venus

• Pluto

• Mars

• Earth

Which of the following is not true of the planet Pluto?

• It has methane icecaps

• it orbits the sun in an ellipse

• it is not a gas giant

• is is a large planet

A region of the solar system just beyond Neptune's orbit, which contains small bodies mostly made of ice, is called...

• the Kuiper belt

• the outer atmosphere

• the asteroid belt

• a Quasar

Young Earth formed a core, mantle and crust in a process called...

• layering

• settling

• dispersion

• differentiation

The two inner planets most alike in size, mass and density are....

• Mercury and Venus

• Earth and Mars

• Venus and Earth

• Mars and Mercury

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3