ESS1.B.1
Galaxies
Solar system
Misc.
Objects
ESS1.A.3
100
An astronomer uses parallax to determine a star’s distance from Earth.
What is the stars closer to Earth will appear to have a greater shift in position.
100
The Milky Way is an example of what type of galaxy?
What is a spiral galaxy?
100
The closest star to Earth.
What is the Sun?
100
This planet is does not clear its orbital path therefore is no longer a planet.
What is Pluto?
100
This "other object" is created when a comet breaks up.
What is a meteoroid?
100
How does the earth stay in orbit around the sun instead of drifting away from it into outer space?
What is gradational force between the sun and earth
200
As astronomer observes an object in space that has an irregular shape, that orbits the sun in a highly elliptical orbit, and that is made of ice and rock.
What is a comet?
200
A cluster of stars that has no specific shape because it may have collided with another galaxy is called a/an
What is an irregular galaxy?
200
The inner planets are made of this material.
What is rock?
200
A meteoroid that strikes Earth.
What is a meteorite?
200
A cluster of stars found in the universe is known as this.
What is galaxy?
200
An astronaut drops a hammer on the Moon, and a scientist drops an identical hammer on Earth. Both hammers are dropped from the same height. The hammer dropped on Earth falls to the ground faster than the hammer dropped on the Moon. What are the reason(s) for this happening?
What is the gravitational attraction is stronger on earth than on the moon because earth has a large mass.
300
This is a model of the solar system that has limitations. What would be a limitation that you cannot see in this model?
What is gravitational force exerted by each planet
300
What is the name of a galaxy that has the shape of an ellipse?
What is an elliptical galaxy?
300
The solar system includes the Sun, planets, moons, and what other objects?
What are asteroids, meteoroids, and comets?
300
A meteoroid that burns up in Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
300
A ball of burning hydrogen.
What is a star?
300
Ocean tides are caused by?
What is gravity, moon and sun
400
The dotted lines in the picture show orbital paths of objects. Object E is orbited by
What is object D?
400
What is the name of our galaxy?
What is the Milky Way?
400
In which of the following choices are the objects ordered from smallest to largest?
a. stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, universe
b. galaxy clusters, galaxies, stars, universe
c. universe, galaxy clusters, galaxies, stars
d. universe, stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters
What is
a. stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, universe
400
A theory on how time and space began.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
400
A rock made of frozen gases and dust.
What is a comet?
400
the solar system was formed as a ________________ shaped cloud of dust held together by ____________
What is a disk and gravity
500
Early astronomers noticed that some stars in the sky appeared to move together across the sky as constellations. What is this motion that makes the stars appear to move across the sky?
What is earths rotation on its Axis?
500
What is the idea that the Sun is the center of the Solar System?
What is the heliocentric theory?
500
What are the outer planets are composed of?
What is gas?
500
How much bigger is the sun than the Earth?
What is 1,000,000 times?
500
Stars are born in this.
What is a planetary nebula?
500
What is the sun with planets and other objects that orbit around the star called?
What is the Solar System?