Solar System

What is the International Space Station?

• A large spacecraft in orbit around Earth

• A rocket

• An Orbit

• The largest particle accelerator

What is the Milky Way?

• closest star to earth

• the name of the galaxy we live in

• distance of the universe

• shape of galaxy where stars are in a random pattern

What is microgravity?

• The condition of being weightless

• space food

• outer space

• space suit

What kind of galaxy is shown?

• Spiral

• Ellipitical

• Irregular

• Cluster

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

How did the universe start?

• Inflation

• Expansion

• Singularity exploded in a Big Bang

• Big Explosion

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

How old is the universe?

• 13.7 seconds

• 13,000 years

• 13.7 million years

• 13.7 billion years

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

A loose collection of ice, dust, and small rocky particles, typically with a long, narrow orbit of the sun.

• comet

• asteroid

• meteor

• meteorite

Draw and label 3 objects in our solar system.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

This is the donut shaped region of comets that circles the entirety of our solar system.

• Oort cloud

• Kuiper Belt

• Asteroid Belt

• Dwarf Planets

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The asteroid belt is found between the orbits of these two planets.

• Jupiter and Saturn

• Mars and Jupiter

• Mars and Saturn

• Mercury and Venus