Group 2: Astronomical Distances

A light year is the 

• distance that light travels in one year
• Speed at which light travels 
• Distance between the sun and the earth. 
• Distance at which light no longer exists. 

What is an astronomical unit (A.U.)?

• the time it takes light to travel one year

• the distance between the Earth and the Moon

• the distance between the Earth and the Sun

• the distance between the Earth and the Neptune

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What do we use astronomical units to measure?

• distances in our solar system
  
• How far our solar system is from others in our galaxy.
  
• The distances between galaxies. 
  
• The distance from one side of the universe to the other. 

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Why do we use light years and astronomical units to measure distances in space?

• Scientists want to sound smart.

• Hubble discovered these units and wanted to use them.

• Space is too small to use km, it wouldn't make sense.

• Space is too big, vast, enormous to use traditional units, like miles.

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Which of the following scenarios would be appropriate to use light years?

• From the sun to Earth

• from Earth to Neptune

• from the Milky Way to its closest galaxy

• Asteroid Belt to the Kuiper Belt

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Which of the following scenarios would we use Light Years to determine, not Astronomical Units (AU)?

• distance from Mercury to Saturn

• distance from Sun to Neptune

• distance from Earth to Sun

• distance from Asteroid Belt to the Betelgeuse Star

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Which correctly states the distances from Earth, from closest to farthest?

• Sun, Moon, Pluto, Asteroid Belt, Milky Way Galaxy

• Moon, Sun, Asteroid Belt, Pluto, Milky Way Galaxy

• Sun, Moon, Pluto, Asteroid Belt, Milky Way Galaxy

• Moon, Sun, Pluto, Asteroid Belt, Milky Way Galaxy

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Which of the following is CLOSEST to planet Earth:

• Jupiter

• Andromeda Galaxy

• Earth's moon

• the Sun

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