Earth's Place in the Universe

What is gravity?

• a force between objects that pushes them apart
• a force between any two objects that pulls them together
• a force that causes objects to remain at rest
• potato salad

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Gravity is responsible for the . . . 

• sun rotating around the planets
• sun revolving around the planets
• planets revolving around the sun
• planets rotating of a planet around the sun

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Which planets are gas giants?

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
• Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
• Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

List the terrestrial planets in our solar system.

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
• Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
• Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

What is rotation?

• the tilt of earth on its axis
• to go around another object. 
• to spin on an axis and causes day and night
• potato chips

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What is revolution?

• to go around another object

• to spin on an axis

• a fundamental change in political power

• baked potato

The ___________ the planet is from the sun, the ____________ it takes to go around the sun. 

• closer, shorter
• farther, shorter
• farther, longer
• closer, longer

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List the order of the planets, starting form the sun. 

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
• Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury
• Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Which planet has the longest orbit around the sun? How do you know?

• Neptune - because it is the farthest from the sun. 
• Saturn - because it takes longer to travel with rings
• Jupiter - because it has the most mass of all the planets
• Mars - it just moves really slow

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• The above picture is an example of rotation.
• The above picture is an example of revolution.

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