Kepler's Laws and the Solar System

A force of attraction exists between all the objects in the universe.

• Kepler's first law

• Kepler's second law

• Kepler's third law

• Newton's law of gravitation

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who proposed Earth centered model?

• Copernicus

• Ptolemy

• Kepler

• Tycho Brahe

In which position is Earth travelling fastest?

• 1

• 5

• 7

• 10

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when the mass of the objects increases the gravitational force between them

• decreases

• increases

• no change

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When the distance between two objects increases the gravitational force between them

• decreases

• increases

• no change

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When a planet orbits the Sun, one of the foci of the elliptical orbit is 

• the axis
• the perihelion
• the center
• the Sun

What is true about the area between points A, B and the Sun, and the area between points H, I and the Sun?

• The area between A, B and the Sun is the largest.
• The area between H, I and the Sun is the largest
• Both areas are equal in size
• There is not enough information to determine the areas

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The farther away a planet is from the sun, the _______ it takes it to orbit the sun once. 

• longer time

• shorter time

• same amount of time

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Planets orbit the Sun in a shape called a(n)

• circle
• ellipse
• focus
• perihelion

A planet moves __________ when it is farthest from the sun.

• faster
• slower
• on a single plane

• vertically

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