Astronomy Solar Systems

Which planet is not classified as an inner planets?

• Mercury

• Venus

• Uranus

• Earth

Which characteristics is not shared by all of the inner planets

• little Hydrogen and Hellium

• small diameters

• mostly solid

• large diameters

What caused the inner planets to develop like they did?

• being near the Sun's heat left them with only rocky and metalic materials

• being far from the Sun's heat allowed them to accumulate large amounts of volatiles

• being in the Oort cloud allowed their volatiles to freeze and become stable

• their large gravity allowed them to hold onto a large amount of volatiles

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

What does the Goldilocks or Habitable zone refer to?

• the area on a planet where the cllinate is not too extreeme

• the area around a star where water can exist as a liquid

• the area around a star where life is confirmed to exist

• the area around a star where planets form

What is located between Mars and Jupiter

• the Kuiper belt

• the Oort cloud

• the asteroid belt

• the solar nebula

What does Bode's rule describe?

• the pattern of where planets are located in our solar system

• how a planet's mass and diameter are related

• how a planet's diameter and temperature are related

• how many moons a planet's mass can hold

Wich of these is not something that nearly all of the planets in out solar system have in common

• the rotate in the same direction

• they revolve in the same direction

• the orbit on nearly the same plane

• they all have highly eliptical orbits

How is the age of our solar system determined

• radiometric dating of rocks and meteors

• relative dating of Earth's layers

• direct observation

• comparing our solar system to others the galaxy

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

Which of these is a way that many exoplanet systems are similair to our solar system

• many have gas giants near their stars

• all exoplanets discovered are of a similiar type to what our solar system has

• most exoplanets systems seem to orbit their star on the same plane

• most exoplanets discovered are very close to their stars

Which planet type is not found in our solar system?

• terrestrial

• gas giant

• ice giant

• hot jupiter