Solar System Review

What celestial body in the solar system has enough mass that it holds all planets and other objects in orbit?

• Moon
• Sun
• Earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The sun does not rotate.

• True
• False

The sun is actually a ______________ sized star.

• small
• medium
• large

What model of the solar system said that the Earth and other stars orbited around the Sun?

• heliocentric
• geocentric
• exocentric

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Which of the following is NOT true of the outer planets?

• They have more moons.

• They have warmer temperatures.

• They have rings.

Which of the following is true of the inner planets?

• They have more moons.
• They are have rocky surfaces.
• They have lower temperatures.

What could you do to increase the amount of gravitational pull between the Sun and Mars?

• change the period of rotation of the Sun
• reduce the distance between the Sun and Mars
• reduce the mass of the Sun and Mars

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Students are planning to build a scale model of the solar system. If Earth were the size of a ping pong ball (4 cm), which ball would best represent the size of Jupiter?

• Beach ball, (40 cm diameter)
• Softball, (10 cm diameter)
• Marble (1.5 cm diameter)

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What did our scale model drawing of the solar system that we did in class attempt to show? (This is referring to the lab where we walked outside and then drew a picture of the solar system.)

• the relative sizes of the objects in our solar system
• the relative distances of the objects in our solar system
• the relative times of the planetary orbits

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Which of the following is a complete list of the outer planets?

• Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter
• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
• Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus