stars - space

Match the following items with their most appropriate unit of measurement

• Astronomical Units (AU)

• Galaxies

• kilometers

• The Solar System

• Light Years

• Earth's surface

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Match the following:

• used within the solar system

• light years

• evolution of the universe

• big bang theory

• used outside the solar system

• astronomical units

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Match each description to the term that it describes:

Groups:

(a) Astronomical Units

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(b) Light-Years

• used within the solar system

• approx 93 million miles (150,000,000 km)

• distance between stars

• approx 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion km)

• distance from Earth to Sun

• distance between planets

• used outside the solar system

• distance between galaxies

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A light year is the 

• distance that light travels in one year
• Speed at which light travels 
• Distance between the sun and the earth. 
• Distance at which light no longer exists. 

What is an astronomical unit (A.U.)?

• the time it takes light to travel one year

• the distance between the Earth and the Moon

• the distance between the Earth and the Sun

• the distance between the Earth and the Neptune

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

How bright a star APPEARS FROM EARTH is called what?

• apparent magnitude
• absolute magnitude
• size
• position in the sky

Why do we use light years and astronomical units to measure distances in space?

• Scientists want to sound smart.

• Hubble discovered these units and wanted to use them.

• Space is too small to use km, it wouldn't make sense.

• Space is too big, vast, enormous to use traditional units, like miles.

Which of the following scenarios would be appropriate to use light years?

• From the sun to Earth

• from Earth to Neptune

• from the Milky Way to its closest galaxy

• Asteroid Belt to the Kuiper Belt

Which of the following scenarios would we use Light Years to determine, not Astronomical Units (AU)?

• distance from Mercury to Saturn

• distance from Sun to Neptune

• distance from Earth to Sun

• distance from Asteroid Belt to the Betelgeuse Star

This geometrically derived unit equals about 3.26 light years

• Astronomical Unit

• Light year

• Parsec

• Light second