Formation of Planets

Formation of Planets

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A nebula is:

• A cloud of ice
• A cloud of dust and gas
• A cloud of just gas
• A cloud of just dust

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How long ago did these nebular processes start?

• 4.6 years ago
• 4.6 light years ago
• 5.6 billion years ago
• 4.6 billion years ago

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What is forming in the accretion disk away from the center?

• Light
• Protostars
• Planetesimals
• Hydrogen

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The group of inner planets are known as:

• The Terrestrial Planets
• The Gas Giants
• The Outer Planets
• The Hallow Planets

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Why are the gas and ice giants so far from the sun?

• ice giants would melt and gas giants would not have formed

• they are too big to be by the sun

• the gravitational pull would have sucked them in

• they pulled away from the sun because they are so big

These are called dwarf planets due to their size and that they share an orbit with other objects

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What is a Dwarf Planet.

• Planet

• larger than an asteroid and smaller than a planet.

• All Of The Above

• I dont know

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What Dwarf Planets are in Our Solar System

• Eris

• Make Make

• Haumea

• Haumea

• All The Above

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Made of rocks that are very similar to the rocks that make up the inner planets. 

• asteroids
• meteoroids
• comets
• meteors

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Which planets are the asteroid belt in between?

• Venus & Earth

• Earth & Mars

• Mars & Jupiter

• Jupiter & Saturn

• Saturn & Uranus

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What are comets made of?

• mud, rock, water

• ice and rock

• ice, dust, water

• gas and dust