Test 2 (1-63)
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| show | The variation in temperature throughout the solar nebula; the higher the temperature, the lower the percentage of light elements in the forming planet.
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| 2. The planet's orbital period is: | show 🗑
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| show | a band of icy planetestimals found beyond Neptune's orbit.
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| show | further from the Sun
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| show | size
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| 6. Planetary orbits: | show 🗑
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| show | they have natural satellites whose motions can be precisely measured
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| show | It heats up, spins faster, flattens out.
(All of the above)
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| show | the denser planets lie closer to the Sun.
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| show | The early solar nebula flattened into a disk
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| show | the shape of its orbit.
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| show | the oldest rocks known
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| 13. Which of the following have an icy composition? | show 🗑
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| 14. What aspects of the planets orbits are nearly the same for most planets? | show 🗑
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| 15. What is the goal of comparative planetology? | show 🗑
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| 16. The smallest sort of interplanetary matter is called: | show 🗑
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| 17. In composition, asteroids and meteoroids are most like: | show 🗑
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| 18. As the solar nebula contracts it: | show 🗑
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| 19. The largest asteroid, and probably the only one to be a spherical "world", is: | show 🗑
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| 20. A meteorite is: | show 🗑
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| show | All have rings around their equators
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| show | Gravitational instability theory
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| show | Beyond the orbit of Neptune
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| show | Comet hale-bopp
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| 25. In order to determine the mass of a planet by applying Newtons law of motion of gravity, the planet must have: | show 🗑
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| 26. A gravitational "sling shot" | show 🗑
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| 27. Which planet itself contains the majority of mass of all the planets? | show 🗑
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| show | Dust acted as as condensation nuclei; platforms to which other particles could attach and form larger particles of matter
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| show | The variation of temperature throughout the solar nebula
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| show | All have rings around their equators
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| 31. Most asteroids are found: | show 🗑
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| show | icy cometlike bodies
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| 33. Conservation of angular momentum means that a spinning body tends to | show 🗑
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| 34. Dust is an important part of the nebular theory of solar system formation because dust is needed to explain: | show 🗑
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| 35. Which spacecraft gave or is giving us our best information about Mercury? | show 🗑
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| show | spins faster
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| show | The denser planets lie closer to the Sun.
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| show | spacecraft sent to an asteroid.
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| 39. Which of these spacecraft went into orbit about Saturn in July 2004? | show 🗑
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| show | measuring the mass of the rocky material in the jovian planets' cores
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| 41. The average density of each planet in the solar system is determined by taking its mass and dividing that by its | show 🗑
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| show | Core-accretion
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| 43. The moons of the jovian planets formed by which two processes? | show 🗑
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| show | They introduce a need for flexibility in theories of the solar system's origin
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| show | a band of icy planetesimals found beyond Neptune's orbit
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| show | Beyond the orbit of Neptune
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| 47. As a rotating gas cloud contracts, it spins | show 🗑
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| 48. How do the densities of the Jovian and terrestrial planets compare? | show 🗑
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| 49. Which statement about the motion of the planets is incorrect? | show 🗑
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| show | Saturn
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| 51. The plane in which almost all planets orbit the sun is called the: | show 🗑
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| show | possessing weak magnetic fields
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| show | their surface features are obscured by their atmospheres.
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| 54. In composition and mass and density, Jupiter is most like: | show 🗑
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| 55. What is the process of accretion? | show 🗑
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| 56. Which of the following are the Jovian planets? | show 🗑
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| 57. The Oort Cloud is believed to have been formed by: | show 🗑
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| 58. Which objects in the solar system have been least modified since the formation of the solar system? | show 🗑
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| 59. The planet's orbital period is: | show 🗑
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| show | low density
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| 61. A successful theory of the formation of the solar system must explain: | show 🗑
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| show | Voyager 2.
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| 63. In composition and density, the asteroids most resemble: | show 🗑
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