Beyond the Earth

What is outer space?

• The atmosphere where climate change takes place.

• A zone that occurs about 100km above the earth.

• The place where aliens live and multiply.

• A place where astronauts go for vacation.

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What are three components of the solar system?

• comets, Sun, plants

• meteoroids, moons, light

• moons, planets, asteroids

• Oxygen, Neptune, Sun

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Which planet is known as a dwarf planet?

• Pluto

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Uranus

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What does “light-years” represent?

• How big outer space or space is.

• The time it takes for the Sun's light to reach the earth.

• The distance it takes for light to travel in a year.

• How long the moon takes to orbit the earth.

What two factors cause planets and stars to be roughly spherical?

• The spin speed increasing over time and the force exerted on an object.

• Radial gravitational attraction, and the spin speed increasing over time.

• Radial gravitational attraction and the weight of an object.

• The distance between planets and stars and mass of an object.

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_____ is the reason the moon orbits around Earth and Earth orbits the Sun.

• gravity

• mass

• weight

• force

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_____ is a system of millions or billions of stars held together by gravitational attraction between gas and dust.

• Comet

• Asteroids

• Galaxies

• Universe

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What are plants?

• animals

• living organism

• pets

What are plants?

• non living

• living

• animals

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