Solar System and Sun

Definition: This astronomer stated that the orbits of planets around the sun were elliptical, the planets do not orbit at a constant speed, and that an orbit is related to its distance from the sun.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Definition: planet closest to the Sun; has a thin atmosphere with temperature extremes, an iron core, and many craters and high cliffs.

The ______ is the major source of heat not only for Earth but our entire solar system.

• Sun

• volcanoes

• greenhouse effect

• hot cores of the planets

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Only during a solar eclipse is this outer layer of the Sun's atmosphere visible from Earth.

• core

• photosphere

• corona

• chromosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

People once believed in a geocentric arrangement for the solar system. This means the planets and stars orbited around ______.

• Sun

• Earth

• Milky Way

• Universe

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Which of the following is the correct order for the inner planets from the asteroid belt to the Sun?

• Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

• Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury

• Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto, Ceres

Planets formed from _______ left over from the formation of the Sun at the center of the cloud as the solar system was beginning to form.

• ice

• gas

• dust

• all three of these

When solar winds from the Sun's corona reach the poles of Earth, charged particles in the solar winds cause gases in Earth's atmosphere to glow creating _______.

• auroras

• sun spots

• magnetic storms

• eclipses

The lower level of the Sun's atmosphere that we see from Earth except during totality of a solar eclipse is the ________.

• corona

• photosphere

• chromosphere

• aurora

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

When electrically charged particles from the Sun's corona reach the poles on Earth ________ may form that sometimes disrupt radio, TV, and phone signals.

• solar winds

• magnetic storms

• auroras

• extinction

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2