Relationships in the Universe

Alex is showing his friend what he learned about comparing the objects of space by their relative sizes.

If “W” represents the universe, what would “X” most likely represent?

• A solar system because it contains planets and stars.

• A nebula because that is what the planets formed from.

• A galaxy because it contains billions of stars and the planets.

• A universe because it contains billions of stars and the planets.

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A huge collection of stars , gas and dust

• Universal

• Universe

• Galaxy

• Solar system

• Inner and Outer planets

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Wave with the longest wavelength

• microwave
• radio
• gamma
• visible light

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When the wavelength increases the frequency will

• increase
• decrease

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How is this technology such as satellites demonstrate improving our understanding of the universe?

• It can cont individual atoms in a substance in order for scientists to study them.

• It can send audio to communicate to other planets in our solar system.

• It has sent pictures of aliens and stars in other universes.

• Satellites have sent clear, distinct images of distant objects, like other galaxies that way we can learn about them

Select the correct order of waves on the EMS 

• Radio, Micro, Infra, Visible, Ultra, X-ray, Gamma
• Gamma, X-ray, Ultra, Vis, Infra, Micro, Radio
• Vis, Micro, Infra, Ultra, X-ray, Gamma, Radio
• Micro, Radio, Vis, Infra, Ultra, X-ray, Gamma

A huge collection of stars

• Solar system

• Universe

• Gravity

• Galaxy

• Galaxium

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The distance light travels in one year.

• 2 AUs

• An astronomic unit

• A light year.

• 93 trillion miles.

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Our nearest star neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is 4 light years away from Earth. How old is the light by the time we see it?

• 4,000 years-old
• 400 years-old
• 4 years-old
• 40 years-old

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Which statement below best describes the Universe?

• The Universe is a black hole made of dark matter.

• The Universe is a giant cloud of dust and gas in space.

• The Universe contains the Milky Way galaxy which contains most of the stars in space.

• The Universe contains many billions of galaxies and each galaxy contains many billions

  of stars.