Solar System Scale

If gravity wasn't an issue, it is possible to fit all of the planets between Earth and the moon.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

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How many days would it take to travel from the Earth to the moon by spacecraft?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

What does 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) represent?

• The distance between Earth and the moon

• 20 lightyears

• The distance between each of the planets

• The distance between the Sun and Earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

List the planets in order from closest to the Sun, to farthest away.

• Earth, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mars, Neptune, Uranus

• Mercury, Mars, Earth, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Pluto, Venus, Mars, Earth, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn

What two planets have a blueish color?

• Uranus

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Neptune

Why couldn't we see all of Jupiter's 79 moons in the Solar System Scale model?

• Based on the scale, they would be smaller than one pixel.

• The creators forgot about them.

• Those moons aren't important.

• The scale was about planets, not moons!

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What is between Mars and Jupiter, but was too small to put into the model?

• UFOs

• Space Dust

• Nothing

• The Asteroid Belt

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What planet is about the same size as Earth?

• Saturn

• Venus

• Mercury

• Mars

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The diameter of the moon is about the same distance between what two US cities?

• Baltimore

• Las Vegas

• New York

• Denver

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Pluto is smaller than Earth's moon.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3