Chapter 3 Test: Earth And Its Place In The Solar System Pt.2

1. The inner and outer planets are all alike because they all orbit the sun. The inner planets are rocky, warm, and smaller than the outer planets. The outer planets are cold, made mostly of frozen gasses, and have more moons than the inner planets.

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2. The sun's gravity causes the objects in the solar system to stay in orbit.

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3. The tilting of earth's axis causes seasons.

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4. All Inner Planets are rocky on the surface.

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5. The moon seems to move in the sky each night because on earth's rotation.

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6. Earth takes one day to rotate.

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7. The moon is visible during a lunar eclipse or a new moon. A new moon does NOT happen when the moons lighted half faces away from earth. A lunar eclipse doesn't happen when Earth's shadow falls on the moon.

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8. Mars isnt like Venus because both planets are in our solar system, both arent neighbors of Earth, and both are rocky, inner plants.

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