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Exam 19: Origin of the Solar System and Extrasolar Planets

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Exam 1: Here and Now50 Questionsadd course
Exam 2: A Users Guide to the Sky68 Questionsadd course
Exam 3: Moon Phases and Eclipses68 Questionsadd course
Exam 4: Origins of Modern Astronomy64 Questionsadd course
Exam 5: Gravity76 Questionsadd course
Exam 6: Light and Telescopes69 Questionsadd course
Exam 7: Atoms and Spectra73 Questionsadd course
Exam 8: The Sun70 Questionsadd course
Exam 9: The Family of Stars70 Questionsadd course
Exam 10: The Interstellar Medium51 Questionsadd course
Exam 11: Formation and Structure of Stars44 Questionsadd course
Exam 12: Stellar Evolution51 Questionsadd course
Exam 13: Deaths of Stars74 Questionsadd course
Exam 14: Neutron Stars and Black Holes69 Questionsadd course
Exam 15: The Milky Way Galaxy72 Questionsadd course
Exam 16: Galaxies75 Questionsadd course
Exam 17: Supermassive Black Holes and Active Galaxies68 Questionsadd course
Exam 18: Modern Cosmology71 Questionsadd course
Exam 19: Origin of the Solar System and Extrasolar Planets69 Questionsadd course
Exam 20: Earth the Active Planet71 Questionsadd course
Exam 21: The Moon and Mercury70 Questionsadd course
Exam 22: Venus and Mars67 Questionsadd course
Exam 23: Jupiter and Saturn68 Questionsadd course
Exam 24: Uranus Neptune Pluto and the Kuiper Belt68 Questionsadd course
Exam 25: Meteorites Asteroids and Comets65 Questionsadd course
Exam 26: Astrobiology68 Questionsadd course
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All the planets revolve around the Sun in a(n) _______________ direction.

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Question 61

Explain the four internal processes that gradually destroy a solar nebula.

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Question 62
Match the planetary body with its definition.
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extrasolar Jovian worlds that have been found orbiting close to their parent stars
protoplanets
icy bodies with "tails" on a extreme elliptical orbit
Kuiper belt objects
the inner four rocky planets of our Solar System
meteor
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extrasolar Jovian worlds that have been found orbiting close to their parent stars
protoplanets
icy bodies with "tails" on a extreme elliptical orbit
Kuiper belt objects
the inner four rocky planets of our Solar System
meteor
solid bits of matter that will eventually be made into protoplanets
extrasolar planets
small, irregular rocky bodies mostly found between Mars and Jupiter
asteroids
piece of dust or tiny rock burning in a planet's atmosphere
hot Jupiters
planets orbiting stars outside of our Solar System
Planetesimals
small, irregular icy bodies found orbiting beyond Neptune
Jovian planets
coalescing planetesimals that eventually become planets
comets
the outer four gaseous planets of our Solar system
Terrestrial planets
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Question 63

Comets are composed of ____.

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Question 64

Terrestrial planets grew slowly and the Jovian planets grew quickly.

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What do scientists believe created the asteroid belt during Solar System formation?

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Question 66

Explain the two sources of heat that "melted" a planet during its formation.

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The most important source for determining the age of the Solar System is by sampling a planet's core.

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Question 68

Outline the three steps to the solar nebular theory.

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