Solar System

The largest object in the night sky is the _____.

• stars
• planets
• Moon
• asteroids

Small points of light in the night sky are _____.

• stars
• Moon
• asteroids
• Earth

A _____ can help you see details of objects in the sky.

• magnifying glass
• hand lens
• microscope
• telescope

When you make an object appear larger, you ____ it.

• magnify
• reduce
• decrease
• shrink

What problem does a telescope solve?

• touching distant objects in space
• seeing distant objects in space
• going to distant objects in space
• hearing distant objects in space

Why is a rainy part of the world a bad place to build a telescope?

• The rain will rust the metal of the telescope.
• The rain will melt the mirrors of the telescope.
• The clouds cover the stars at night.
• The weather is too cold for telescopes to work.

Why were pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope clearer than pictures taken from telescopes on Earth?

• There is an artist on board the Hubble.
• The Hubble Telescope is a radio telescope and collected radio waves.
• The Hubble orbited Earth above Earth's atmosphere.
• It was lucky.

The _____ is the nearest star to Earth.

• inner planets
• Moon
• planet
• Sun

A _____ is a large body of rock or gas in space that moves around a star.

• Moon
• planet
• star
• Sun

To _____ the Sun is to move in a path around it.

• magnify
• orbit
• spin
• rotate