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WorksheetsThe Formation of the Milky Way and Our Solar System
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Is a cluster of galaxies which includes our galaxy which is the Milky Way.
Group
Local Group
Local Supercluster
Stellar System
The galaxy where our Solar System revolves.
Milky Way
Andromeda
Triangulum
Sagitarius
A light-year is a quantity of...
time
distance
Our Local Group is part of a bigger cluster of about hundred galaxies which is called...
Orion Supercluster
Stellar Supercluster
Virgo Supercluster
Cygnus Superclaster
When a star is born, what do you call the formation of interstellar clouds?
Nebulae
Protostar
Red Giant
Comets
What is the 1st stage of star formation?
Nebulae
Protostar
Main sequence star
Brown dwarf
It is an exceptional dense body with an extremely powerful gravitational field that attracts anything near it, including light.
Supernova
Neutron Star
Black Hole
Sun
It is a failure star in which protostar does not attain a temperature of more than 10 million K.
Brown dwarf
White dwarf
Black dwarf
Red dwarf
It is the hypothesis explaining the origin of the Solar system.
Nebulae hypothesis
Nebular hypothesis
Sun hypothesis
Supernova Explosion Hypothesis
Which of the following materials composed the biggest part of the Sun.
oxygen
helium
iron
hydrogen
Which of the following is NOT a terrestrial planet.
Mars
Earth
Jupiter
Venus
Which of the following is NOT a gas giant.
Sun
Uranus
Jupiter
Neptune
Earth was formed before the before the formation of the Sun.
True
False
Our Sun is an example of a Red Giant Star.
True
False
The Earth does not start as a homogeneous mass of cold nebular particles but was directly formed by the compaction of asteroids, comets and other debris.
True
False
