Gravity and The Solar System

What is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center?

• Orbit

• Gravity

• Revolution

• Rotation

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What is the path that an object takes in space when it goes around a star, a planet, or a moon?

• Orbit

• Gravity

• Rotation

• Star

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What is an object's spinning motion around its own axis. For example, the Earth spinning like a top.

• Revolution

• Rotation

• Orbit

• Gravity

This planet has a distance from the Sun of 0.4 AU. This is the closest planet to the sun and is the fastest planet.

• Neptune

• Earth

• Mercury

• Pluto

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This gas planet is the largest planet in the solar system. It is the 5th planet from the sun. It has a Great Red spot, a giant storm that has been happening for hundreds of years. It is 5.2 AUs from the Sun.

• Neptune

• Jupiter

• Mars

• Venus

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This planet is a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. This is the 4th planet from the sun at 1.5 AU. There is strong evidence that this planet was—billions of years ago—wetter and warmer, with a thicker atmosphere.

• Neptune

• Jupiter

• Mars

• Earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

This is the 6th planet from the sun. This planet has a dazzling, complex system of icy rings. It is 9.5 AU from the sun and has 62 moons!

• Venus

• Uranus

• Mercury

• Saturn

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

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This is the 8th and most distant of the large planets orbiting our Sun. It is dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds. It is 30.1 AU from the Sun.

• Jupiter

• Uranus

• Saturn

• Neptune

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This is the 2nd planet from the Sun. It has a thick, toxic atmosphere filled with carbon dioxide and it is covered in thick, yellowish clouds of sulfuric acid that trap heat, causing a runaway greenhouse effect. It’s the hottest planet in our solar system!

• Mercury

• Venus

• Earth

• Mars

These are the largest of the small bodies. They are rocky, airless, and are left over from the early formation of our solar system. Most of this ancient space rubble can be found orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in a large ring called a belt.

• Comets

• Asteroids

• Meteors

• Moons

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