Intro to the Solar System

What is the nebular hypothesis?

• Prediction about how the universe was formed

• Prediction of how the moon was formed

• Prediction of how comets were formed

• Prediction of how the Solar System was formed

The asteroid belt sits between what two planets?

• Mars and Jupiter

• Earth and Venus

• Venus and Uranus

• Jupiter and Saturn

These planets ​ ​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)   ​ (d)   are all inner planets.

• Mercury

• Venus

• Earth

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Neptune

• Saturn

Another name for Inner planets is called ​ ​ (a)   .

• terrestrial

• Celestial

• Gaseous

• Heliocentric

• thermodynamic

Which is the largest object in our solar system?

• Sun

• Jupiter

• Earth

• Pluto

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An example of this type of planet is Jupiter

• Terrestrial

• Jovian

This type of planet may have rings

• Terrestrial

• Jovian

What is  the period of revolution?

• How long it takes a planet to orbit the sun

• How long it takes a planet to spin around

• How fast a planet spins

• How elliptical a planet's orbit is

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the planets of the solar system formed as 

• the center of the gas cloud cooled

• planetesimals flattened into a rotating disk

• planetesimals collided into one another

• the sun absorbed extra gas and dust from the solar system

How long ago was our sun formed?

• 10 million years ago

• 5 million years ago

• 4.5 billion years ago

• 2 billion years ago

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