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ASTRONOMY (The galaxy)

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1.      It is a galaxy appear as flat, blue-white disks of stars, gas and dust with yellowish bulges in their centers

a)

Moon

b)

Spiral

c)

Constellations

2.

What is the age of the Milky Way

a)

14.9 Billion Years

b)

11.5 Billion Years

c)

13.6 Billion Years

3.

At the center of the milky way sits a supermassive black hole called

a)

Sagittarius

b)

Perseus

c)

Nebula

4.

  In what year does Hubble study the Andromeda Nebula?

a)

1953

b)

1973

c)

1923

5.

  It’s called a ________ because if you could view it from the top or bottom, it would look like a spinning pinwheel.

a)

Irregular

b)

Spiral Galaxy

c)

Elliptical

6.

A large collection of stars, dust, and gas in space. A system of millions or billions of stars held together by gravity.      

a)

Constellations

b)

Galaxy

c)

Andromeda Galaxy

7.

Elliptical are preferentially found close to the centers of galaxy clusters. It ranges in size from tens of millions to over one hundred trillion stars.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

He is a Dutch astronomer, sometimes dubbed the master of the galactic system, was the first to realize that the Milky Way isn't motionless but rotates, and he calculated speeds at which stars at various distances orbit around the galactic center.

a)

Hubble

b)

Jon Oort

c)

Charles Messier

9.

Are stars whose brightness changes periodically over time, and they had been discovered by the American astronomer, Henrietta Leavitt, in the early 1900ʼs.

a)

RR Lyraes

b)

RS Pupis

c)

Cepheids

10.

Which of the following is a characteristic of spiral galaxy/galaxies?

a)

Appears as blue-white disks of stars

b)

Galaxies that are abundant in the early universe

c)

They possess little gas and dust, contain older stars and not actively forming stars anymore

11.

. Galaxies which have very little dust, are neither disk-like nor elliptical. Astronomers often see these galaxies as they peer deeply into the universe, which is equivalent to looking back in time.           

a)

Barred Spirals

b)

Irregular

c)

Spirals

12.

Give the 2 groups that divided under Spiral Galaxies

a)

Star and Moon

b)

Dwarf and Giant

c)

Normal and Barred

13.

The following are major categories of galaxy except one:

a)

Elliptical

b)

Globular

c)

Spiral

14.

In other part of the world, our galaxy goes by another name. In Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa, it is called ________.

a)

Backbone of the Silver

b)

Backbone of the Botswana

c)

Backbone of the night

15.

In his paper, He plotted a graph of the velocity of galaxies (obtained from determining the redshift of the spectra of these galaxies) against their distances (from Cepheid variables).

a)

Edwin Hubble

b)

Jan Oort

c)

Charles Messier