Comparative studies of objects in a group help us learn more about those objects than we could learn by studying each object individually. With this goal in mind, watch this video, and select all of the following choices that describe your observations of patterns. As you do so, think about the implications of how the Solar System may have formed. Choose one or more:
A. The planets closest to the Sun are much smaller than the planets that are farther away.
B. The size of all planets increases with distance from the Sun.
C. All planets orbit the Sun in the same direction.
D. Planets orbit the Sun in random directions.
E. Planets are evenly distributed in distance from the Sun.
F. All planets orbit the Sun in a spherical distribution.
G. All planets orbit the Sun in a roughly flat plane.
H. The outer planets (those farthest from the Sun) are spaced farther apart from one another than the inner planets are spaced.