Gravity and the Solar System

It is almost always difficult to scale the size of planets AND get the distance between them to scale at the same time.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

If the Earth was scaled to the size of a basketball, the moon would be scaled to the size of a softball.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

You can fit almost 30 Earths between Earth and the moon.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

There are other stars in our solar system.

• True

• False

Inner planets are _____ and _____ and outer planets are ____ and _____.

• smaller, further apart, bigger, closer together

• bigger, further apart, smaller, closer together

• smaller, closer together, bigger, further apart

• bigger, closer together, smaller, further apart

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Objects with a large mass have...

• a small gravitational force

• no gravitational force

• more density

• a large gravitational force

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Object with a small mass have...

• a small gravitational force

• no gravitational force

• less density

• a large gravitational force

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The further apart two objects are...

• the more gravitational force they have

• the less gravitational force they have

• the gravitational force is equalizes them

• the gravitational force does not exist

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NGSS.HS-PS2-4

The closer two objects are...

• the more likely to crash into each other

• the less gravitational force they have

• the more gravitational force they have

• the more likely they will orbit each other

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Which planet has the greatest gravitational force?

• Saturn

• Mercury

• Earth

• Jupiter

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4