Gravity and the Solar System

•When an object follows an elliptical orbit around the sun, there is one point, called _________, where the object is farthest from the sun.

• aphelion

• ellipitical

• perihelion

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

the path that a body follows as it travels around another body in space.

• ellipitical

• ellipse

• orbit

• circular

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

•a force of attraction between objects that is due to their masses and the distances between them.

• power

• gravity

• force

• motion

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NGSS.HS-PS2-4

•There is also a point, called___________ , where the object is closest to the sun.

• perihelion

• aphelion

• ouch

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

a kind of cloud, from which solar systems are formed ( the inward pull of gravity is balanced by the outward push of gas pressure in the cloud.)

• solar plane

• solar panel

• solar nebula

• solar gravity

The inward force that causes an object to move in a circular path

• centripetal pull

• centripetal push

• centripetal gravity

• centripetal force

•As the nebula contracted during the formation of the solar system, it began to rotate with increasing speed and flattened out into a disk, called ________________, where our sun formed

• protostellar disk

• solar nebula

• solar power

• solar disk

all objects in the universe attract each other through gravitational force

• law of universal force

• law of universal gravitation

• law of universal beyonce

• law of universal pull

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

NGSS.HS-PS2-4

The protostellar disk became the _________ in which the planets formed

• whoruntheworld

• planetissmal

• protostellar disk

• proplanetary disk

•Collisions between these bodies formed larger bodies, called ___________, from which planets formed.

• planets

• planetesimals

• planetary disk

• protoplanet

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-6