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Space Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is this constellation called?

a)

Draco

b)

Ursa Major

(Big Dipper)

c)

Orion

d)

Ursa Minor

(Little Dipper)

2.

What are the densest objects in the universe?

a)

Your mother

b)

Neutron Star

c)

The sun

d)

Black Hole

3.

What is gravity?

a)

The curvature of spacetime

b)

A force that connects objects through the attraction of their mass

c)

The force

d)

Dark energy

4.

The substance that makes up the majority of the universe is normal matter.

a)

True.

b)

False.

5.

When a star dies, it results in a violent explosion and can outshine entire galaxies from the light produced from the explosion. What is this process called?

a)

TNT.

b)

The Big Bang.

c)

Super nova.

d)

After you eat Taco Bell.

6.

Neutron stars are the second densest objects in the universe.

With this information, estimate about how large the radius of neutron stars typically are.

a)

The size of an atom.

b)

20 km.

c)

2000 km.

d)

1 light year.

7.

What is the one thing that light cannot escape once its got caught in its gravity?

a)

Black holes.

b)

Neutron stars.

c)

Earth.

d)

The sun.

8.

The distance between Earth and the Moon is so vast you could fit every single planet in between earth and the moon and still have room to spare.

a)

True.

b)

False

9.

The distance between Earth and the sun is ___.

a)

1 Astronomical Unit.

(AU)

b)

1 Light year.

c)

1 Million miles.

d)

1 inch.

10.

What is a "Light year"?

a)

100 Billion miles.

b)

Buzz Light Year.

c)

When light makes a full orbit around the sun.

d)

The distance it takes for light to travel in a year.