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Kepler's 1st Law

Authored by Angela Germeraad

Science

11th - 12th Grade

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Kepler's 1st Law
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

circle
ellipse
focus
perihelion

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An ellipse is drawn around two points called

aphelion
perihelion
foci
axis

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When a planet orbits the Sun, one of the foci of the elliptical orbit is 

the axis
the perihelion
the center
the Sun

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What has an eccentricity of zero

a straight line
a large ellipse
a circle
a small ellipse

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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Complete the following statement: The farther away two planets are the _______ the gravitational force between them.

greater
same
zero
less

7.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Kepler's 1st law says that the eccentricity of a planet's orbit can be determined with the following equation e=d/w

If the distance (d) between foci of an ellipse is 2 and width of the ellipse (w) is 5, what is the eccentricity (e) of the ellipse?

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