Kepler/Solar System FMS

What is the difference between the inner planets and the outer planets?

• The outer planets are smaller than the inner planets 
• The inner planets are smaller than the outer planets
• The outer planets have more rocks than the inner planets
• the inner planets are heavier than  the outer planets

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The gas giants are different from the terrestrial planets because they

• have smaller atmospheres
• are less dense
• have larger atmospheres
• are more colorful

The inner planets are called terrestrial planets because they are composed of

• water
• gas
• frozen surfaces
• rocks

One factor that makes life possible on Earth is

• an atmospher
• water
• greenhouse effect
• gravity

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Who stated the earth was the center of the solar system?

• Ptolemy
• Copernicus
• Kepler
• Galileo

What model of the solar system states the sun is the center

• Geocentric Model
• Heliocentric model
• Biocentric modal
• Hydrocentric  model

What model of the solar system states the earth is the center

• Geocentric Model
• Heliocentric model
• Biocentric modal
• Hydrocentric  model

Put the planets in order from the sun.

• Mercury, Venus, Mars Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Sarturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto
• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Sarturn,  Uranus, Neptune,Pluto
• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Sarturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto

Planets orbit the Sun in a shape called a(n)

• circle
• ellipse
• focus
• perihelion

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

An ellipse is drawn around two points called

• aphelion
• perihelion
• foci
• axis

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4