5. ESS1.2-3

Which galaxy is the farthest away from the Milky Way Galaxy?

• Sombrero

• Andromeda

• Messier 87

• Hoag's Object

If you are away from the city lights and look up into the clear, night sky, you may see a long strip of about 100 billion stars that stretch about 100,000 light years away. Some galaxies, including ours, are considered spiral galaxies because the stars spiral around its core.

• Milky Way

• Black Hole

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Which set lists objects in the universe from closest to farthest from Earth?

• Sun, Mars, Pluto, Andromeda Galaxy

• Mars, Sun, Proxima Centauri, Alpha Centauri A

• Pluto, Sun, Alpha Centauri A, Proxima Centauri

• Sun, Milky Way, Andromeda Galaxy, Proxima Centauri

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Sean goes outside and notices that the sun looks larger than the other stars he has seen. Why does the sun appear larger than the other stars?

• The Sun is the largest star in the sky.

• The Sun looks larger because of the rotation of the Earth.

• The Sun looks larger because it is closer to Earth than any other star.

• The Sun appears to be the largest star because it gives off the most light.

Which object is a meteor?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

These are rocky, airless worlds that orbit our Sun, but they are too small to be called planets. Tens of thousands of these minor planets are gathered in a belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. What is this celestial body called?

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A streak of light seen when a space rock enters Earth's atmosphere and begins to burn up. This is called a(n)

• asteroid

• comet

• meteor

• meteoroid

(Image of a comet)

• asteroid

• comet

• meteor

• planetestimal

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Comets and meteoroids are small solar system bodies that orbit the Sun. There is one distinctive feature of a comet that sets it apart from a meteoroid. What is it?

• elliptical orbits around the Sun

• visible coma - fuzzy outline and tail

• the naming process for both comets and meteoroids is the same

• variances in the rock composition in both comets and meteoroids

Which bodies are composed primarily of rock and metal?

• comets and stars

• stars and meteors

• comets and asteroids

• asteroids, meteoroids, and meteorites