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Chapter 28 Solar System Review Questions from the Review Game
1. What force draws the matter in an interstellar cloud together to form a star?
2. What is the main reason why Venus’s surface is so hot?
3. Name the three criteria needed to be considered a planet.
4. Where is the asteroid belt?
5. Where does a planet move the fastest in its orbit?
6. What are rocky celestial bodies that orbit the sun ranging in size from several meters to 100s of kilometers?
7. What are small, icy celestial bodies with highly eccentric orbits that originate in the Kuiper Belt or beyond?
8. Name the 4 terrestrial planets.
9. Name the 4 Jovian planets.
10. Why is Pluto no longer a planet?
11. What states that every action has an equal but opposite reaction?
12. What is at one of the foci in Kepler’s 1st Law, which the planets’ orbit?
13. What is a nebula?
14. Define planetesimals.
15.What is the apparent movement of the planets in an opposing direction across the sky?
16. What law says that planets don’t move at constant speeds?
17. Which law describes the relationship of force and distance between two masses?
18. Name two things that are NOT a part of our solar system.
19. Where does 99% of the matter in our solar system exist?
20. What does revolve mean?
21.What does rotate mean?
22. What two gases make up a large portion of the Jovian planets?
23. What is the aphelion?
24. All of our planets exhibit what kind of orbit?
25. What is accretion and when/where does it happen?
26. Roughly how far appart are subsequent planets?
1. What force draws the matter in an interstellar cloud together to form a star?
2. What is the main reason why Venus’s surface is so hot?
3. Name the three criteria needed to be considered a planet.
4. Where is the asteroid belt?
5. Where does a planet move the fastest in its orbit?
6. What are rocky celestial bodies that orbit the sun ranging in size from several meters to 100s of kilometers?
7. What are small, icy celestial bodies with highly eccentric orbits that originate in the Kuiper Belt or beyond?
8. Name the 4 terrestrial planets.
9. Name the 4 Jovian planets.
10. Why is Pluto no longer a planet?
11. What states that every action has an equal but opposite reaction?
12. What is at one of the foci in Kepler’s 1st Law, which the planets’ orbit?
13. What is a nebula?
14. Define planetesimals.
15.What is the apparent movement of the planets in an opposing direction across the sky?
16. What law says that planets don’t move at constant speeds?
17. Which law describes the relationship of force and distance between two masses?
18. Name two things that are NOT a part of our solar system.
19. Where does 99% of the matter in our solar system exist?
20. What does revolve mean?
21.What does rotate mean?
22. What two gases make up a large portion of the Jovian planets?
23. What is the aphelion?
24. All of our planets exhibit what kind of orbit?
25. What is accretion and when/where does it happen?
26. Roughly how far appart are subsequent planets?