AA-Gravity in the Solar System

What force is responsible for the formation of the solar system?

• Electromagnetic force

• Gravitational force

• Nuclear force

• Frictional force

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Gravity is an attractive force between all objects that have ____.

• Light

• Mass

• Energy

• Heat

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What happens when a small part of a cloud collapses in space?

• It disappears

• It forms a black hole

• It attracts more particles

• It explodes

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As particles moved in the outer regions of the disk, they crashed into each other and formed ____.

• Stars

• Black holes

• Clumps with larger masses

• Galaxies

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What does a lot of mass mean in terms of gravitational force?

• Less gravitational force

• No gravitational force

• A lot of gravitational force

• Constant gravitational force

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Fill in the blank: The force of gravity from the sun can't stop the planets' sideways motion—it can only pull them ______ the sun.

• away from

• toward

• around

• past

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What happens if the sun's gravity suddenly stopped?

• Planets would move in a circle

• Planets would shoot off in a straight line

• Planets would stop moving

• Planets would move closer to the sun.

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Fill in the blank: Our solar system orbits in an even larger circle around the center of the ______ galaxy.

• Andromeda

• Milky Way

• Triangulum

• Whirlpool

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Fill in the blank: Gravity is just as important in other ______ everywhere in the universe.

• planets

• stars

• solar systems

• galaxies

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What is the mass of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way compared to the sun?

• 2 million times more massive

• 4 million times more massive

• 6 million times more massive

• 8 million times more massive

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