Unit 4 Test: Sun and Formation of the Solar System

Match the left column to the right column

• About the same size as Earth

• Kuiper Belt

• Larger than Earth

• Jupiter

• Much smaller than Earth

• Asteroid Belt

• An area between Mars and Jupiter

• Venus

• Region in Solar System beyond Neptune

• Mars

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What is the 2nd largest planet in our Solar System?

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Neptune

• Uranus

• Venus

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What is the largest object in our Solar System?

• The sun

• Earth

• Earth's moon

• Jupiter

• Saturn

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What is the "balancing force" that counters gravity for an object to stay in orbit?

• Orbit change

• orbital angle

• orbital spin

• orbital retro-rotation

• orbital speed

What is the force that pulls an object towards the Sun?

• Friction

• Gravity

• Tension

• Nuclear

• Orbital Speed

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

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Due to their great masses, all four Jovian planets are much denser than the earth.

• True

• False

All the terrestrial planets lie inside the asteroid belt.

• True

• False

Which characteristic listed below describes the jovian planets?

• Close to the sun

• Small mass

• High density

• Fast rotational period

• Solid Surface

If you recently discovered a new planet that had a high volume but low mass, which category of planet would you associate it with? Hint: d=m/v

• Terrestrial

• Jovian

• Dwarf

• Asteroid

• Comet

How do the densities of the jovian and terrestrial planets compare?

• Made from the same solar nebula, they are all similar.

• More massive jovians all have high densities, compared to the tiny terrestrials

• 
  All terrestrials are more dense than any of the jovians.

• The closer a planet lies to the Sun, the less its density.

• No real pattern here; densities vary greatly and are very individual to each world