MEASUREMENTS IN SPACE

The distance that light can travel in a year is called....

• A light minute

• A light month

• A light year

The farther away a planet is from the sun, the _______ it takes it to orbit the sun once. 

• shorter

• longer

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

An ellipse is drawn around two points called

• aphelion

• axis

• foci

Planets orbit the Sun in a shape called a(n)

• Focus

• Circle
  

• Ellipse

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

If a star has a parallax angle of 1 arcseconds, how far away from Earth is it in lightyears?

• 0.5

• 3.26

• 2.0

Parsecs are used to measure time.

• True

• False

Lightyear is the measurement of...

• the distance light can travel in one second

• 
  the distance light can travel in one year

• the speed of light

How far away is Earth from the sun in Astronomical Units?

• 1

• 3

• 92 million

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

_______________ would be the best unit to use to measure the distance between the our sun and Proxima Centauri (our nearest star neighbor).

• Parsecs

• Light years

• 
  Astronomical units

_______________ would be the best unit to use to measure the distance between the asteroid belt and Pluto

• 
  Astronomical units

• Parsecs

• Light years

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3