8th Grade - Chapter 24 Test

Approximately how fast is the speed of light?

• 186,000 miles/sec

• 456,000 miles/sec

• 187,000 km/sec

• 525,600 m/sec

• none of these

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With a Christian worldview perspective, what is the most plausible reason why we see starlight?

• Earth’s path has crossed all those stars’ paths before so their light is present.

• Even though we’re far away, light is really fast and it has arrived at Earth.

• They’ve always just been – why would their light not be here?

• During Creation, God created stars close-by and the light was already here when he scattered the stars in the heavens.

• none of these

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A free-standing collection of billions of stars, dust, planets, and other space junk.

• solar system

• nebula

• Hollywood

• galaxy

• none of these

Which of the following is a sub-category of one of the most common kinds of galaxies that we’ve studied?

• barred-spiral

• helical ellipse

• flattened irregular

• slightly irregular

• none of these

Any recognizable pattern of stars found in the night sky.

• constellation

• asterism

• asteration

• constellism

• none of these

Are nebulas part of galaxies or are galaxies part of nebulas?

A. galaxies are part of nebulas B. nebulas are part of galaxies

• galaxies are part of nebulas

• nebulas are part of galaxies

True or False

All binary stars are double stars, as well.

• TRUE

• FALSE

True or False

The only good constellations serve is helping astronomers find things that are to be found in the night sky – they act like an address on a roadmap.

• TRUE

• FALSE

True or False

Nebular theory is easy to believe because it is safe to assume that since astronomers have found so many nebula in our galaxy, and there are so many stars in our galaxy, that stars must have come from nebulas.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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How many constellations are identified by the International Astronomical Union?

• 36

• 33

• 88

• 65

• none of these