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Ch. 3.1-Solar System
Solar System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did the extra matter at the center of the solar nebula become? | The Sun |
| What formed when planetesimals collided and combined? | Planets |
| What formed after the solar nebula collapsed and its center became very hot? | Planetesimals |
| What two things hold a nebula together? | The inward force of gravity and outward pressure. |
| The force that holds together the matter of a nebula | gravity |
| The force created as particles in a nebula push away from each other. | pressure |
| Large bodies that became the cores of current planets. | planetesimals |
| The cloud of gas and dust that formed our solar system. | Solar nebula |
| A large cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space. | nebula |
| a measure of the energy of motion of the particles in an object. | temperature |