Formation of the Solar System

A giant cloud of gas and dust that collapsed to form our solar system

• solar nebual

• planetismal

• heavy bombardment

• frost line

Small asteroid-like bodies, the word literally means pieces of planets.

• heavy bombardment

• solar nebula

• planetismals

• frost line

What is the process that begins a star's life?

• heavy bombardment

• supernova explosion

• combustion

• nuclear fusion

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

What is the driving force behind the formation of the solar system?

• nuclear fusion

• gravity

• laws of motion

• friction

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The circle in the solar system, inside which its too hot for solid ice, and outside its cold enough for ice to form

• frost line

• solar nebula

• heavy bombardment

• planetismal

Which of the following describes the inner planets the best?

• they are large and gaseous

• they are large and rocky

• they are small and gaseous

• they are small and rocky

Which of the following describes the outer planets the best?

• they are small and gaseous

• they are large and rocky

• they are small and rocky

• they are large and gaseous

Where do asteroids come from?

• comets

• the sun

• the big bang

• left over rocks from the formation of the solar system

When did most of the asteroids hit planets and moons

• they didn't, most of them are still in space

• period of heavy bombardment

• big bang

What is the theory called that explains how our solar system was formed?

• Universal Gravitation Theory

• Big Bang Theory

• Theory of Relativity

• Accretion Theory

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2