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WorksheetsGroup E (THE GALAXIES)
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 5mins
A _____ is a group of many stars, with gas, dust, and dark matter
Galaxy
Galaxies
Milky Way
Universe
2.______ holds galaxies together against the general expansion of the universe
Galaxy
Gravity
Universe
Milky Way
3.The stars are too closely packed to get an accurate count, but it certainly has more stars than some of the ___ galaxies.
Bigger
Greater
Smaller
Lesser
4. It is a cloud of gas and dust from which bodies in space are formed.
Sunspot
Solar flare
Photosphere
Nebula
5. Whose astronomer able to resolve individual stars in several of the brighter spiral-shaped nebulae including M31?
Harlow Shapley
Galileo Galilei
Edwin Hubble
Immanuel Kant
6. What is the most distant object in the sky that the human eye can see without optical instruments?
The Aurora Borealis
The Andromeda Galaxy
The Horsehead Nebula
The Sagittarius Constellation
7. How was Hubble able to determine the distances of nearby galaxies?
by observing Cepheid variables in them
by using radar
by measuring trigonometric parallaxes
by measuring the typical angular separations of stars in them
8. Who was the first astronomer to realize that the Milky way galaxy isn't motionless but rotates, and he calculated speeds at which stars at at various distances orbit around the galactic corner?
Neil Armstrong
Jan Oort
Galileo Galilei
Edwin Hubble
9.With a mass equal to that of four million suns, the ________, discovered in 1974, can be observed in the sky with radio telescopes close to the constellation Sagittarius.
Sun
Earth
Milky way galaxy
Blackhole
10. What is the supermassive blackhole at the center of Milky Way Galaxy?
A. Sagittarius A*
B. Saggitarius A*
C. Sagitarrius A*
D. Sagitarius A
11. How many local groups are in our Virgo Supercluster?
100 galaxy groups
110 galaxy groups
120 galaxy groups
150 galaxy groups
12. Galaxies that are unusual in their shape, size or composition and the result of the interactions between two galaxies.
Spiral galaxies
Elliptical galaxies
Peculiar galaxies
Irregular galaxies
13. These galaxies can be recognized by their wide, flat disks of rotating gas and dust.
Spiral galaxies
Elliptical galaxies
Peculiar galaxies
Irregular galaxies
14. This galaxy is known for being round, and can't form new stars.
Spiral Galaxy
Elliptical Galaxy
Peculiar Galaxy
Irregular Galaxy
15. Which is not a property of a peculiar galaxy.
Unusual size or composition
Contains small amount of gas
Both a and b
Neither a nor b
