Milky Way size

Open Ended

A kid gets $25 per week and saves $5 per week. 1) How much total money will the kid have in 4 years? 2) How much will the kid have in his savings?

Multiple Choice

Light travels about (blank) km every second.

• 3,000

• 30,000

• 300,000

• 300

Drag and Drop

A ​

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is the distance that ​

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travels in a vacuum in one ​

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.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

light-year

light

year

month

stars

km

Multiple Choice

The Milky Way galaxy measures about (blank) light-years across. 

• 100,000

• 500

• 25,000

Multiple Choice

It is possible to count all the stars in the Milky Way.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Astronomers estimate there are about (blank) hundred billion stars in the Milky Way.

• ten

• five

• one

• eight

Multiple Choice

How many planets likely exist in our galaxy?

• millions

• billions

• thousands

Multiple Choice

•Andromeda Galaxy, is about (blank) million light-years from Earth.

• 2

• 3

• 4