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WorksheetsAMPLIFY: EMS 2.4 Article "Gravity and the Solar System"
Total questions: 1
Worksheet time: 7mins
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
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
Gravity is an attractive force between all objects that have ____.
Light
Mass
Color
Temperature
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.
The spinning cloud of particles and gases flattened into a ____.
Sphere
Cube
Disk
Pyramid
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
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.
Fill in the blank: The Milky Way galaxy is part of a giant collection of more than ____ billion other stars.
50
100
200
500
Which object is at the center of the Milky Way galaxy?
A giant planet
A supermassive black hole
A massive star
A large asteroid
