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Solar System - Science Olympiad Exam Questions And Answers (Verified And Updated) How did the terrestrial planets form? - answerIn the proto-Solar-Sytem, after the sun formed, the rest of the materials orbiting close around it began to clump together too. However, closer to the sun, lighter materials like gases blew away and only rocky material was left, causing the four terrestrial planets, and some of their moons, to form. What are the characteristics of Terrestrial Planets? - answerSol...

NST1502 Assignment 2 (DETAILED ANSWERS) 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED Answers, guidelines, workings and references ...... QUESTION 1 1.1 Define Energy. (2) 1.2 Use your native language to define energy. Name the language and define it. (2) 1.3 What do greens plants depend on to make food? (2) 1.4 What process do green plants use to make food? (2) 1.5 What do animals depend on green plants for? (2) 1.6 Name seven life processes that require...

AST101 Clicker Quizzes UofT with 100% Correct Answers What does the term "Solar System" mean? - Answer- The Sun, the planets, and all of their moons What does the term "Universe" mean? - Answer- The totality of all space, time, energy, and matter Earth is 1 AU from the Sun. What is the maximumpossible separation between Earth and Mars? (Hint: Mars is the next farthest planet from the Sun) - Answer- 2.5 AU A 'light year' is a measure of: - Answer- distance Stars are... -...

Kuiper belt Object (KBO) - A small body made of ice and rock that orbits beyond Neptune's orbit, in the Kuiper Belt. Exoplanet - a planet that orbits a star outside the solar system dwarf planet - Pluto (has 5 moons in KBO) Eris (has 5 moons) Ceres (in asteroid belt) asteroid belt - the region of the solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, where many asteroids are found Kuiper belt - A region of the solar system that is just beyond the orbit of Neptune and that contains sm...

How do we know about the formation of the solar system? correct answers Telescopes, rovers, probes, samples Who published work about heliocentrism? correct answers Copernicus What makes a planet a planet? correct answers 1. large body orbiting a star (in a regular pattern) 2. Nearly spherical 3. Cleared it's orbit of debris Zone 1 of the Solar System correct answers First four planets, terrestrial (rocky), small Zone 1.5 of the Solar System correct answers Asteroid belt lies betwe...

AST101 Clicker Quizzes UofT with 100% Correct Answers What does the term "Solar System" mean? - Answer- The Sun, the planets, and all of their moons What does the term "Universe" mean? - Answer- The totality of all space, time, energy, and matter Earth is 1 AU from the Sun. What is the maximumpossible separation between Earth and Mars? (Hint: Mars is the next farthest planet from the Sun) - Answer- 2.5 AU A 'light year' is a measure of: - Answer- distance Stars are... - Answer- bal...

Systems and Cycles Final UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers What is the primary source of heat within Earth's modern day interior? - Correct Answerradioactive decay Like every other terrestrial planet in our star system, Earth's core is composed primarily of which chemical element? - Correct Answer- iron (Fe) Which layer of Earth's geology behaves like a brittle solid, unlike other layers that behave more like a plastic or ductile solid? - Correct Answer- lithosphere

Gizmo Solar System Explorer 2024 - All Answers are Correct Student Exploration: Solar System Explorer Vocabulary: astronomical unit, dwarf planet, eccentricity, ellipse, gas giant, Kepler’s laws, orbit, orbital radius, period, planet, solar system, terrestrial planet

A rock found on Earth that crashed down from space is called _________. correct answers a meteorite Which of the following statements about asteroids, Kuiper belt objects, and Oort cloud objects is true? correct answers Objects in the asteroid belt and Kuiper belt orbit the Sun in nearly the same plane as the planets, but objects in the Oort cloud do not. When a comet passes near the Sun, part of it takes on the appearance of a large, bright ball from which the tail extends. This part is c...

EAPS 105 Final Exam 2024 with 100% correct answers Which of the following is the largest? - ANSWER-The distance from Earth to the sun. Galileo's observations of the gibbous phase of Venus proved that: - ANSWER-Venus orbits the sun. Copernicus: - ANSWER-Showed how retrograde motion could be explained without epicycles if the planets all orbited the sun. Infrared astronomy is often done from high-flying aircraft because: - ANSWER-infrared radiation is absorbed in Earth's atmosphere...