Earth's Place in the Universe Review

Gravity is responsible for the . . .

• sun rotating around the planets

• sun revolving around the planets

• planets revolving around the sun

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What is rotation?

• potato chips

• to go around another object.

• to spin on an axis and causes day and night

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What is revolution?

• to go around another object

• to spin on an axis

• baked potato

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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

How does the mass of an object effect the gravitational attraction of an object?

• The smaller the mass of the object the greater the gravitational force.

• The mass of the object has no effect on the gravitational force

• The greater the mass of the object the less the gravitational force.

• The greater the mass of the object the greater the gravitational force.

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Why do the planets continue to orbit the sun and not travel in a straight line?

• The gravitational force of the planets is greater than the sun's. 
• A magnetic field that surrounds the sun.
• The sun's gravitational attraction on the planet.
• cheesy potato casserole

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

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• The above picture is an example of revolution on your solar system

• The above picture is an example of rotation in our solar system

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If you used a golf ball, baseball and a basketball to represent the Earth, Mercury and the Sun. Which ball would represent each planet?

• Mercury = basketball, Earth = golfball, Sun = baseball

• Mercury = golfball, Earth = basketball, Sun = baseball

• Mercury = baseball, Earth = basketball, Sun = golfball

• Mercury = golfball, Earth = baseball, Sun = basketball

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