AMPLIFY: EMS 2.4 Article "Gravity and the Solar System"

What force is responsible for keeping you close to Earth's surface and also began the process that formed the solar system?

• Magnetism

• Gravity

• Friction

• Electromagnetism

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About how many years ago did our area of space contain a huge cloud of dust and gases?

• 2.5 billion years

• 4.6 billion years

• 6.2 billion years

• 3.8 billion years

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

• Light

• Mass

• Color

• Temperature

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What happens when a large clump of dust and gas collapses?

• It forms a star

• It disappears

• It becomes a planet

• It turns into a black hole.

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The spinning cloud of particles and gases flattened into a ____.

• Sphere

• Cube

• Disk

• Pyramid

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What did the leftover particles in the outer regions of the disk do?

• Disappeared

• Formed new stars

• Circled around the sun

• Collapsed into a black hole.

As the particles moved, they crashed into each other and formed clumps with ____.

• Smaller masses

• Larger masses

• No mass

• Equal masses

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What role does the sun's gravity play in the solar system?

• It pushes planets away

• It keeps objects circling the sun

• It has no effect

• It slows down the planets.

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Fill in the blank: The Milky Way galaxy is part of a giant collection of more than ____ billion other stars.

• 50

• 100

• 200

• 500

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Which object is at the center of the Milky Way galaxy?

• A giant planet

• A supermassive black hole

• A massive star

• A large asteroid

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