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How Big, How Far, How Fast

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 15mins

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Class
Date
1.

In the observable part of the universe, there are how many galaxies?

a)

one million

b)

one hundred million

c)

one billion

d)

one hundred billion

2.

How fast is the earth orbiting the sun?

a)

660 mph

b)

6,600 mph

c)

66,000 mph

d)

660,000 mph

3.

Numbers like millions, billions, and trillions are hard for people to understand.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Bigger always means more massive.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

The Sun is how many times more massive than Jupiter?

a)

100

b)

1,000

c)

10,000

d)

100,000

6.

The monster truck and junk car represent which stars?

a)

Regulus/Sun

b)

Sun/Antares

c)

Aldebaran/Betelgeuse

d)

Zuben-el- Genubi/Sun

7.

Regulus is ____ times more massive than our Sun.

a)

2

b)

3

c)

4

d)

5

8.

The most massive star we know is how many times more massive than our Sun?

a)

100-150 times

b)

150-200 times

c)

200-250 times

d)

250-300 times

9.

You mash 10,000,000 monster trucks into the size of a sugar cube. Putting sugar cubes together, how big a stack of cubes would be needed to equal a neutron star?

a)

5 miles high and wide.

b)

10 miles high and wide.

c)

15 miles high and wide.

d)

20 miles high and wide.

10.

How much more would you weigh on a neutron star than on Earth?

a)

500,000

b)

5,000,000

c)

500,000,000

d)

5,000,000,000

11.

How long would it take a passenger jet to circle fully VY Canis Majoris once?

a)

120 years

b)

1,200 years

c)

12,000 years

d)

120,000 years

12.

If the Earth were the size of a basketball and the moon the size of a tennis ball, how far would it be from the basketball?

a)

6 feet

b)

11 feet

c)

16 feet

d)

21 feet

13.

If the Sun were the size of a bowling ball, how far away would Mercury be from the Sun?

a)

36 feet

b)

93 feet

c)

142 feet

d)

484 feet

e)

2,798 feet

14.

If the Sun were the size of a bowling ball, how far away would Earth be from the Sun?

a)

36 feet

b)

93 feet

c)

142 feet

d)

484 feet

e)

2,798 feet

15.

If the Sun were the size of a bowling ball, how far away would Mars be from the Sun?

a)

36 feet

b)

93 feet

c)

142 feet

d)

484 feet

e)

2,798 feet

16.

If the Sun were the size of a bowling ball, how far away would Jupiter be from the Sun?

a)

36 feet

b)

93 feet

c)

142 feet

d)

484 feet

e)

2,798 feet

17.

If the Sun were the size of a bowling ball, how far away would Neptune be from the Sun?

a)

36 feet

b)

93 feet

c)

142 feet

d)

484 feet

e)

2,798 feet

18.

If light were bouncing between LA and NY, it could do 38 bounces in one second.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

How fast is the Sun going around the galaxy?

a)

4,830 mph

b)

48,300 mph

c)

483,000 mph

d)

4,830,000 mph

20.

The distance to the Andromeda Galaxy is…

a)

250,000 light years

b)

2,500,000 light years

c)

250,000,000 light years

d)

250,000,000,000 light years

21.

If the Milky Way were in Los Angeles, one hundred miles across, where would the Andromeda Galaxy be?

a)

Boston

b)

Chicago

c)

New York

d)

Washington, D.C.

22.

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will eventually collide.

a)

True

b)

False