Formation of Solar System SES1.a

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10th - 12th Grade

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HS-ESS1-1, HS-ESS1-2, MS-PS1-1

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Ashley Roe-Jones

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Formation of Solar System SES1.a

I can explain the nebular hypothesis. (Knowledge)

Multiple Choice

Most scientists believe the Big Bang Theory explains which of the following questions?

How our planets and moons formed

How our universe began

How the sun turns hydrogen into helium

How fast light travels through space

Multiple Choice

Nebula's are mixtures of gases and what?

clouds

stars

tiny particles

dust

Multiple Choice

A cloud of gas and dust from which bodies in space are formed

photosphere

nebula

solar flare

Sunspot

Lets See What Happens Next

Send 1 person from your table to get some water out of the fountain.
Pour the water into your bowl.
Sprinkle Styrofoam into the bowl.
Use the stick to rotate in one direction.
Observe.
Share.
Clean Up (5 Mins)!!

Were You Listening??

Go to Google Classroom and complete the Nebular Hypothesis Drag and Drop Activity. Work Independently! We will review our answers as a class!

Multiple Choice

The hypothesis stating that the solar system evolve from a rotating gaseous cloud that turned into a disk like form creating a central mass which formed the sun and eventually the planets and the moon.

Steady State theory

Big Bang Theory

Nebular Hypothesiss

Oscillating universe

Multiple Choice

A nebula is:

A cloud of ice

A cloud of dust and gas

A cloud of just gas

A cloud of just dust

Multiple Choice

A nebula collapses down into a disk known called:

A compact disk

An irregular cloud

An protostellar disk

An circular disk

Multiple Choice

A nebula starts to collapse because of:

A nearby star shining it's light

A passing spaceship

A passing comet

Gravity

Multiple Choice

As a nebula collapses it also begins:

Expand

Rotate

Shake

Turn to ice

Multiple Choice

What forms in the very center of the accretion disk?

A protostar

A planet

A protoplanet

A planetesimal

Multiple Choice

Intense pressure in the protosun (protostar) caused:

Fire in the Sun to start

Helium to break down into Hydrogen

Nuclear Fusion to start

Nuclear Fusion to end

Multiple Choice

What happens during nuclear fusion in the sun?

oxygen nuclei combine to form helium

Helium nuclei combine to form oxygen

helium nuclei combine to form hydrogen

hydrogen nuclei combine to form helium

Multiple Choice

What is forming in the accretion disk away from the center?

Light

Protostars

Planetesimals

Hydrogen

Multiple Choice

The order of the formation of the solar system:
Solar nebula - protostellar disk- nuclear fusion - sun - planetesimals - planets

True

False

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