Dungeon Boss Planetary Movement

In which location would you weigh the most?

• Mars
• Venus
• The moon
• Jupiter

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Planets travel in what shape?

• Perfect circle
• Ellipse
• Square
• Triangle

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When do planets move the fastest?

• Close to the sun
• Far away from the sun

In which location would you weight the least?

• Venus
• Earth
• Jupiter
• Moon

Mass can best be described as?

• The amount of atoms in an object
• The gravitational force exerted on an object
• The size of an object
• The compactness of an object

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Kepler's 2nd Law deals with 

• the shape of the planets' orbits
• the speed/area the planet travels 
• the length of time it takes the planet to orbit the sun

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The farther away a planet is from the sun, the _______ it takes it to orbit the sun once. 

• longer
• shorter

According to this law, Earth's orbit follows an elliptical path.

• Kepler's 1st law
• Kepler's 2nd law
• Kepler's 3rd law
• Newton's Second Law

When a planet orbits the Sun, one of the foci of the elliptical orbit is 

• the axis
• the perihelion
• the center
• the Sun

What is true about the area between points A, B and the Sun, and the area between points H, I and the Sun?

• The area between A, B and the Sun is the largest.
• The area between H, I and the Sun is the largest
• Both areas are equal in size
• There is not enough information to determine the areas