Stars and Solar System

What celestial body is at the center of the Solar System?

• The sun

• The moon

• The earth

• A super massive black hole

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What type of star is very small and dense and was created by the collapse of a giant star?

• Red Dwarf

• Yellow Dwarf

• Neutron Star

• Red Giant

Sometimes I am called a "dirty snowball". I have a hydrogen cloud, coma, and a nucleus. I am invisible except when near the sun. What am I?

• Asteroid

• Star

• Meteor

• Comet

A meteor when it burns in the atmosphere is also known as a ____.

• rock

• shooting star

• ball of ice

The name of the galaxy in which our solar system is situated is the:

• Andromeda

• Milky Way

• Black eye

• Sombrero

The distance that light travels in one year is called:

• A light year

• A light ray

• An astronomical unit

• AU

Which two things typically result from a Supernova II?

• Black Hole and Nova

• Black Hole and Neutron Star

• Neutron Star and Supernova II

• All of the above

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-3

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are classified as what type of planets?

• Terrestrial planets

• Gas Giant planets

• Asteroid planets

The star which appears stationary from the earth

• Pole star

• Shooting Stars

• Sirius

• Alpha Centauri

It takes nearly how many solar days for the moon to make one complete revolution around the earth?

• 23.5

• 24.5

• 27.5

• 29.5

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1