Kepler's Laws review

Where is the planet moving faster

• Position A to B
• Position B to C
• Position H to I
• Position I to J

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

A planet moves __________ when it is farthest from the sun.

• faster
• slower

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

The oval shaped path a planet travels around the sun is called its 

• circle
• ellipse
• barycenter
• precession

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

Weight is determined by the force of _______ acting on an object

• Mass
• Elements
• Gravity
• Speed

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NGSS.HS-PS2-4

As distance between two objects decreases, what happens to the amount of gravitational force?

• increases
• decreases
• goes up and down
• nothing changes

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Objects with a larger mass with have __________ gravitational force than objects with a smaller mass.

• less
• more

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

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

• circle
• ellipse
• focus
• perihelion

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

The place where a planet is closest to the Sun as it orbits the Sun is called the

• perihelion
• aphelion

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

Kepler's first law states that the orbits of the planets are oval in shape or 

• ellipses
• perfect circles

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

The path a planet travels around the sun is called its 

• orbit
• ellipse
• barycenter
• precession

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2