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Your Place in the Universe by Jason Chin

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How old were the kids at the beginning of the book?

a)

8

b)

7

c)

9

d)

10

2.

The kids are half as tall as __________________.

a)

an ostrich

b)

a book

c)

a telescope

d)

a car

3.

What are the tallest animals on land?

a)

giraffes

b)

hippos

c)

elephants

d)

Ostriches

4.

What are the tallest living things?

a)

trees

b)

skyscrapers

c)

bushes

d)

flowers

5.

What is the tallest mountain peak on Earth?

a)

Mount Everest

b)

Mount Kinley

c)

Mount Rushmore

d)

Mount Baldy

6.

The circular or oval paths that satellites travel around Earth in are called ________________.

a)

orbits

b)

pathways

c)

rings

d)

hoops

7.

How long does it take the Moon to make one trip around the Earth?

a)

27.3 days

b)

1 day

c)

24 days

d)

365 days

8.

The four planets closest to the sun are known as terrestrial planets because they are made out of ________ and _________, and have solid surfaces.

a)

rock and metal.

b)

gas and light

c)

paper and straw

d)

cheese and jello

9.

A beam of light could circle the Earth _________ times in one second.

a)

seven and a half

b)

four hundred

c)

twice

10.

Pluto is a ________ planet.

a)

dwarf

b)

red

c)

blue

d)

huge

11.

Pluto is part of the __________ Belt.

a)

Kuiper

b)

Karate

c)

Kooky

d)

Kaleidoscope

12.

_________________- are groups of starts that are held together by gravity.

a)

Galaxies

b)

Belts

c)

Dark Matter

d)

Novas

13.

What galaxy is the Earth in?

a)

The Milky Way

b)

Andromeda

c)

Black Eye

d)

Coma Pinwheel

14.

Andromeda's light takes 2.5 million years to reach Earth. This means that when we look at Andromeda we're seeing light that left it ___________ years ago?

a)

2.5 million

b)

2.5 thousand

c)

250

d)

25

15.

Everything: every star and every galaxy, every planet, and all of space is the _____________________.

a)

Universe

b)

Solar System

c)

Planet

d)

Galaxy

16.

The farthest we can see is around __________ light-years away.

a)

13 billion

b)

13 million

c)

13 trillion

d)

13,000