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.