Orbital Motion

The motion shown in the diagram

to the left is responsible for which

of the following?

• One year

• Lunar cycle

• Day and Night

• Seasons

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What keeps the planets in orbit around the sun?

• gravity and inertia together

• gravity

• inertia

• neither gravity or inertia

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Why do the planets in our solar system orbit the sun?

• because the sun is the brightest object

• because the sun was there first

• because the sun has the most mass

• because nothing can orbit planets

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What force keeps the planets in their orbital paths around the sun?

• Satellites

• Gravity

• Attraction

• Velocity

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_________ is the time it takes a planet to complete one revolution of the sun.

• Orbit

• Orbital period

• Satellites

• Elliptical

What would happen to our planets if the sun no longer had gravity?

• The planets would remain in orbit since they still have gravity

• The planets would drift off into space in a curved path

• The planets would drift off into space in a straight path

• The planets would crash into the sun

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What has a tail made of gas, dust and ice and moves around the sun in an oval-shaped orbit?

• Comet

• Asteroids

• Meteoroids

What is the shape of the Earth's orbit around the Sun?

• Circular

• Elliptical

• Parabolic

• Hyperbolic

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Which law explains the relationship between the orbital period and the radius of orbit?

• Newton's First Law

• Kepler's Third Law

• Einstein's Theory of Relativity

• Hooke's Law

What is the primary force that causes the Moon to orbit the Earth?

• Magnetic Force

• Electromagnetic Force

• Gravitational Force

• Nuclear Force

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