Unit 5 Review

What does rotation determine about a planet?

• How long it's year will be

• How long that planet's day will be

• It's gravitational force

• Whether the planet will have seasons

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How is weight affected by gravity?

• Weight is another term for gravity

• Weight is not affected by gravity

• The more gravity a planet has, the more weight an object will have

• Gravity determines planetary orbit

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Which answer choice orders celestial objects from LEAST mass to MOST mass

• asteroid, moon, earth, jupiter, sun

• jupiter, moon, asteroid, sun, earth

• sun, earth, moon, jupiter, asteroid

• asteroid, moon, juputer, sun, earth

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Which of these statements is true?

• Planets with a thick atmosphere have drastically changing temperatures

• Planet's farther from the sun have a longer revolutionary period

• Planets closer to the sun have a longer revolutionary period

• Planets with no atmosphere have few craters

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What are the two reasons why we experience seasons on earth?

• gravity of the other planets on earth, earth gets closer to the sun sometimes

• earth's tilted axis, the moon's gravity

• the moon revolves around earth, earth revolves around the sun

• earth's tilted axis, earth revolves around the sun

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How are the earth, moon, and sun positioned for a SPRING tide?

• aligned (straight line)

• right angle

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How are the earth, moon, and sun positioned for a NEAP tide

• aligned (straight line)

• right angle

Why does the earth revolve around the sun, and not the other way around?

• The sun has more gravitational pull than earth because it has more mass

• The earth formed after the sun so it has to go around the sun

• The earth actually is the center and the sun goes around it

• The earth has no gravity

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How can you increase gravitational pull between objects?

• decrease mass and increase distance

• decrease their mass and distance

• increase their mass and decrease distance between them

• increase mass and move objects farther apart

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What is the heliocentric model?

• The old model where the earth was at the center of our solar system

• The model we accept today, with the sun at the center of our solar system

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