Space Exploration Pt 1

Place these events in order from earliest to latest

• Stars come together to create galaxies and clusters

• Everything is a hot soup of particles

• Hydrogen gas forms

• Gas cools and forms stars

• Universe begins

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

True or false: stars created all the elements besides hydrogen in the universe

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

When small stars die, they become ​ (a)   while big stars become ​ (b)   when they die

• white dwarves
• black holes
• red giants
• nebulaes
• galaxies
• asteroids

Match each part of the universe to it's description

• An explosion from a large star's death

• Black Hole

• A vast cloud of gas and dust in space

• Galaxy

• A region in space where the gravitational pull is so strong that nothing can escape

• Supernova

• A bunch of stars orbiting a black hole

• Nebulae

• A dense group of stars with no planets

• Star Cluster

What invention allowed scientists to swap from the geocentric to heliocentric model?

Ancient humans did NOT use the night sky for...

• Telling stories

• Navigation

• Checking the weather

• A calendar

Sort each planet into it's type

Groups:

(a) Rocky

,

(b) Gas

• Venus

• Mercury

• Mars

• Earth

• Neptune

• Saturn

• Jupiter

• Uranus

For the listed planets, put them in order from closest to furthest away from the Sun

• Neptune

• Saturn

• Earth

• Venus

• Jupiter

One full rotation of the Earth on it's axis is a​ (a)   , while a full orbit around the Sun is a ​ (b)  

• day
• year
• week
• month
• hour

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Any object with mass creates a 'well' in space-time that makes other objects come towards it. This is a description of...

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NGSS.HS-PS2-4