Solar System review Part 1

The Earth is constantly spinning on its axis, like you might spin a basketball on your finger.

It is this spinning of the Earth that causes 

• the seasons
• night and day
• moon phases

Which of these causes the phases of the moon?

• earths orbit around the sun
• the moons orbit around earth
• the orbit of the sun as it orbits earth
• the orbit of the moon as it orbits the sun

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Which statement describing the relationship between stars and planets is true?

• planets orbit the sun and stars do not
• planets create light, and stars reflect light energy
• stars orbit some planets
• the sizes of the planets are directly related to the sizes of nearby stars

As distance between two objects increase the pull of gravity 

• Increases
• Decreases
• Stays the same

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Who said that falling objects fall at the same rate?

• Galileo
• Kepler
• Brahe
• Copernicus

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Where would you have to travel to reduce your weight but not lose any mass?

• The moon
• The Sun
• Jupiter
• Saturn

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Gravity on Mars’ surface is much lower than it is here on Earth. This is because the mass of mars is ______ than Earth.

• less
• more
• the same

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Any object with mass has gravity.

• True
• Sometimes
• False
• Never

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As mass increases, what happens to gravitational force?

• increases
• decreases
• stays the same
• i don't know

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Which model has greater gravitational attraction (if any)

• Model A
• Model B
• Both Model A and Model B (same gravity)

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