Exam 16: The Solar System

The Moon's albedo is ______________.

The heliocentric model of the solar system was developed by

The most distant planet that can be seen with the unaided eye is ______________.

The study of astronomy involves

Kepler's second law of planetary motion is known as the law of

The large,central portion of a swirling solar nebula is called a(n)______________.

The most distant planet that can be seen with the unaided eye is

The Earth-centered model of the solar system is called the ______________ model.

That a planet moves with different speeds in its orbit is given by which of Kepler's laws?

Halley's comet has a sidereal period of 76.2 years.Determine the value of the semimajor axis of its orbit.(Use Kepler's third law.)

The point of a planet's orbit farthest from the Sun is called the ______________.

Which of the following is the largest dwarf planet?

The geocentric model of the solar system is attributed to

The name given to the point of a planet's orbit that is closest to the Sun is

Other planetary systems are best detected by the Doppler shifts that change the pattern of the star's ______________.

The planet with the largest volcano in the solar system is

The distance between Earth and the Sun is 93,000,000 miles,or one ______________.

A terrestrial planet that has seasonal changes is

The ______________ effect provides evidence of motions within other planetary systems.

Earth's axis is tilted ______________ degrees from the normal to the ecliptic plane.