Shields Custom Gravity Notes Questions

Period, First Name, Last Name

Example: 5 Jenna Smith

What keeps the planets in their continuous orbit around the sun?

• magnitism
• gravity
• rotation
• revolution

The sun has more mass than any planet. What does this tell you?

• The sun has less gravity than the planets.
• The sun has more gravity than the planets.
• The sun and the planets have the same amount of gravity.

If the solar system lost the Sun, what would happen to the planets?

• The planets would continue on the same elliptical path
• The planets would explode.
• The planets would travel on a different path.
• The planets would stop moving.

To be able to accurately predict when a comet will collide with a planet, it is necessary to understand

• the formation of comets
• the attraction of opposite poles of a magnet
• the gravitational attraction that exists between all bodies
• the composition of the earths atmosphere

What force causes a planet to travel along a curved path instead of moving in a straight line as shown in the diagram?

• Electromagnetic attraction between the sun and the planet
• Gravitational attraction between the planet and its neighboring planet
• Gravitational attraction between the sun and that planet
• Electromagnetic attraction between the planet and its neighboring planet

This girl is showing how the Earth stays on a path around the sun. What part of the demonstration represents gravity?

• The path
• her hand
• the string
• the ball

What keeps the planets from moving in straight lines throughout the galaxy.

• potential energy
• inertia
• gravity
• light energy

What is true about the movement of asteroids, comets, planets, the Oort cloud, and the Kuiper belt?

• They all orbit the sun
• composition
• they all move at the same speed
• they all move in perfect circles

Solids made of rock and ice with very elliptical orbits that originate beyond the orbit of Neptune and release gas and dust in a bright display that can last weeks when they pass.

• Asteroid
• Comet
• Meteors
• Kuiper Belt