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Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
The name for the "Road of the Sun"
Elastic
Ecliptic
Essential
Elated
The distance light can travel in a year is known as a...
Nano Year
Light Hour
100 Years of Solitude
Light Year
The Sun appears to move though the sky. But, actually...
The Earth spins and orbits
The Moon pulls the Earth away from the Sun
Jupiter is the center of the Solar System
The atmosphere interferes with the sunlight, illusion.
The point in the sky that is straight over head.
Zero Position
Zedona
Zedna
Zenith
A recognizable grouping of stars is a ...
Conestoga
Constellation
Conceptual
Condescendent
A constellation of the Zodiac is one that...
The ecliptic runs through
The cycle of rotation stops in
The Nadir is centered upon
The has three stars in a line
A line that runs from the North to South and passes through the zenith is a ...
Metropolitan
Meteoric
Meridian
Nampa
The speed of light is...
300,000 km per second
182,000 mi per second
Infinite
155 mi/hr
Why is light used to measure distances in Astronomy?
Because objects are so far from each other
Because the telescopes can't see in the dark
It's not. That is not how it works
Because it is too hard to use heavy
The nearest star to Earth (other than the Sun) is Proxima Centauri, about ...
5 million ly
300,000 km
14,000 miles
4.2 ly
Betelgeuse, a red giant star, is about 75 ly away. That means that the light that reaches Earth today, left there...
7.5 years ago
75 years ago
750 years ago
7.5 days ago
Stars and other objects in the night sky that never set are called...
circumpolar
navigable
longitudinal
irreversible
All cultures have used constellations for things like ...
A guide to plant or harvest
A reminder of religious stories
As a guide to make traditional meals
A reminder to cook meat before eating
There are ______ constellations of the Zodiac.
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Light traveling from the Sun takes about ___________________ to get to Earth.
About 10,000 years
1 year
About 8 minutes
2.1 seconds
