Kepler's Laws Vocabulary

Kepler's Laws Vocabulary

9th Grade

15 Qs

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Kepler's Laws Vocabulary

Kepler's Laws Vocabulary

Assessment

Quiz

Science

9th Grade

Hard

NGSS
HS-ESS1-4, HS-PS2-4

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

FREE Resource

15 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Kepler's 2nd Law deals with 

the shape of the planets' orbits

the speed/area the planet travels 

the length of time it takes the planet to orbit the sun

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which answer choice best describes kepler's 1st law

Space travel is limited by the speed of light and gravitational forces

Each planet orbits the sun in an ellipse rather than a circle

Each planet orbits the sun in a circle

The earth's edges have a heliocentric model

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Kepler's 1st Law says this about the orbits of planets

they are elliptical.

they are perfect circles.

they are always perfect polygons (square, pentagon, hexagon, etc.,)

they are parabolic.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Kepler's 3rd Law states that the farther away a planet is from the sun, the _______ it takes it to orbit the sun once (year).

longer

shorter

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A new planet is discovered orbiting a single star. The planet has one moon. According to Kepler’s first law, what do scientists know about the orbit of the planet around the star?

The orbit is circular

The orbit is elliptical

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which scientist came up up with the three laws of planetary motion?

Newton

Kepler

Einstein

Hawking

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Which Law is it?

This Law states that a planets path around the sun is elliptical.

Kepler's 1st Law

Kepler's 2nd Law

Kepler's 3rd Law

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