CRM 1.4 - Properties of the Solar System

Why are planets able to maintain a spherical shape?

• gravity pulling from the center of the planet

• gravity between the planets

Gravity helps planets

• orbit the sun

• rotate on their axis

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Which is true?

• Earth has a longer rotation than Jupiter

• Mercury is further away from the Sun than Mars

• Neptune has a longer revolution than Saturn

• Uranus has the smallest diameter

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Which is true?

• Both solar system models have the Earth at the center

• Both solar system models have the Sun at the center

• The heliocentric model is our current model of the solar system

• The geocentric model is our current model of the solar system

Which increases gravitational pull?

• Smaller mass

• Larger mass

• Objects further apart

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Which decreases gravitational pull?

• Further distance apart

• Closer distance between objects

• Larger mass

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Which is true?

• Planet 1 AU is colder than Planet 10 AU

• Planet 1 AU is warmer than Planet 10 AU

Match the following

• Changes based on gravity

• Does not change

• How much matter an object contains

• Weight

• Weight

• Changes based on location

• Mass

• Mass

Who came up with the most modern model of the solar system?

• Ptolemy

• Kepler

• Copernicus

What happens when new scientific evidence is discovered?

• Theory is immediately discarded

• The evidence is ignored

• Theory will become a law

• Theory will be revised

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