End of Year Science Competition 8th Grade

Galaxies moving away from Earth show a?

• blue shift

• red shift

• rainbow shift

• increase in black holes

If a star is 12 light years away, how long will it take for it's light to reach Earth?

• 12 days

• 1 year

• 12 years

• 100 years

Our galaxy is called the

• Earth Nebula
• The Hubble Galaxy
• The Milky Way
• The Snickers

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Galaxies are composed of (best answer)

• stars
• stars and gas
• stars, dust, and gas
• stars, dust, and gas held together by gravity

This is a young star that glows as gravity brings it together

• Nebula
• Protostar
• Main-sequence star
• Red giant

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

A low mass star ends its life as a 

• Supernova
• Black hole
• White dwarf
• Nebula

an apparent shift in the position of an object when viewed from different locations

• light year
• absolute magnitude
• parallax
• spectrum

What a comet is made of?

• Dust, Rock, and Metal

• Icy Shell

• Icy Shell, Dust, Rock, and Metal

• Icy Shell, Dust, Rock, Metal, and Liquid

What is sublimation?

• Solid phase to gas phase

• Solid phase to liquid phase

• Liquid phase to gas phase

• Gas phase to solid phase

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What is a property of terrestrial planets?

• rocky, or metal with a hard surface

• gaseous

• they have water and an oxygen atmosphere

• very cold