Astronomy Benchmark - Are You Ready?

What type of galaxy is this?

• Spiral
• Elliptical
• Irregular 
• Irrational

What type of galaxy is this?

• Spiral
• Elliptical
• Irregular
• Irrational

What type of galaxy has no defined pattern or shape?

• Spiral 
• Elliptical
• Irregular
• Constellation

Which galaxy do we live in?

• Andromeda

• ESO 146-IG 005

• Milky Way

• Seque 2

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

The light from the sun....

• only reaches part of the moon because of clouds
• lights up the whole moon but Earth's shadow gets in the way sometimes
• lights up 1/2 the moon and we see different portions of the 1/2 lit moon
• illuminates different amounts of the moon because the distance from the sun changes

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The sun appears to move across the sky each day.  What causes this?

• the spinning of the Earth's axis
• The path of the sun around the Earth
• the production the nuclear energy around the sun
• the tilt of the Earth on its axis

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

__________________ are darker,cooler areas on the sun's photosphere.

• corona

• sunspots

• flares

• solar wind

What feature is shown in this image?

• Solar Flare

• Photosphere

• Core

• Sunspot

What do the blue arrows moving outward from the sun's corona represent?

• Gravity

• Nuclear Fusion

• Solar Winds

• Photosphere

Provides the energy for a star

• Nuclear fusion

• Law of Conservation of Mass and Energy

• Solar Flares

• Sunspots

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1