Space System Finals

Which of the following is a dwarf planet?

• Mars    

• Ceres

• Neptune

• Saturn

  The _______ was a giant cloud of dust and gas found in space, which started the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago.

• Oort cloud     

• sun nebula       

• asteroid belt        

•   solar nebula

  Which of the following planets is NOT a terrestrial planet?

• Venus 

• Jupiter

• Mars        

• Earth

  The asteroid belt can be found between the orbits of _____ and _____.

• Earth; Mars    

• Jupiter; Saturn          

• Mars; Jupiter     

• Venus; Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

True or False: The terrestrial planets orbit the sun in one direction, while the gas giants orbit the sun in the opposite direction.

• True

• False

True or False: As the mass of an object increases, its gravitational pull decreases.

• True

• False

The __________ hypothesis is the most widely accepted explanation for how the sun and planets in the solar system may have formed.

• Solar

• Planet

• Nebular

• Star

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

As gravity in the center of the accretion disk increased, the temperature in the center of the disk ________.

• Increased

• Decreased

• Fluctuated

• Stay the same

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

True or False: The planets that orbit the sun travel in the same direction and in the same plane.

• True

• False

True or False: The nebular hypothesis explains why the gas giants are closer to the sun, while the rocky planets are farther away.

• True

• False