Quiz - Earth, Moon, & Orbit

The moon phases that occur just before and just after a new moon are called ____.

• third quarter moon

• first quarter moon

• crescent

• gibbous

What is the top layer of the Earth's surface, where we live, called?

• Mantle

• Innercore

• Outercore

• Crust

What Earth layer has a solid inner part made of iron and a liquid outer part made of molten metal?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

• none

The theory that explains the formation of the solar system is called ____.

• Nebulis Theory
• Nebular Theory
• Big Bang Theory
• Big Nebulan Theory

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

Planets move in elliptical orbits is Kepler's _____ Law, the Law of ______.

• 1st; Orbits

• 2nd; Areas

• 3rd: Periods

• 4th; Universal Gravitation

What is the shape of a planet's orbit?

• circular
• elliptical
• spherical
• round

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

According to Kepler's Laws of Orbit, a planet's velocity is ____ when farther from the sun.

• fastest

• slowest

• unchanged

• the same

What is the nebular hypothesis?

• Prediction about how the universe was formed
• Prediction of how the moon was formed
• Prediction of how comets were formed
• Prediction of how the Solar System was formed

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Terrestrial planets are usually:

• closer to their star than gas giants.
• less dense than ice giants.
• larger than gas giants.
• older than ice giants.

The moon probably formed when...

• A piece of the Earth broke off due to it's fast rotation

• A Mars-sized object collided into the Earth

• Earth captured the moon gravitationally as it attempted to pass by.

• the molten bubble of the Earth budded.

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