Astronomy Pre-Assessment

Order these from largest to smallest.

• Galaxy, Universe, Planetary System, Solar System

• Planetary System, Solar System, Galaxy, Universe

• Universe, Galaxy, Solar System, Planetary System

• Solar System, Universe, Galaxy, Planetary System

A light year (ly) is a unit of ...

• time

• distance

• speed

Which are ordered smallest to largest

• person, galaxy, continent, universe,solar system

• person, continent, solar system, galaxy, universe

• universe, galaxy, solar system, continent, person

• person, universe, solar system, continent, galaxy

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

How far away in miles is the sun from the earth?

• 900

• 9,000

• 93 million

• 5,538

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What is bigger the sun or the moon and how much bigger?

• Moon is 400 time bigger than the sun

• Sun is 400 times bigger than the moon

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Which is bigger the earth or the moon?

• Moon

• Earth

• They are the same size

• They are smaller than each other

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Which has more mass the earth or the moon

• Both are not very massive

• I have more mass than the moon

• The earth has more mass than the moon

• The moon has more mass than the earth

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

How long does it take the moon to orbit the earth?

• 1 day

• 2 days

• 29.5 days

• 365 days

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

This is the largest object in our solar system.

• Jupiter's Moon

• Jupiter

• Neptune

• Sun

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A student made a model of how the planets orbit the sun. She used a tennis ball to represent the sun. She used ping-pong balls to represent each planet, and painted each one a different color. Then, she placed all the ping-pong balls equal distances apart in a line extending out from the sun. What are two limitations of the student's model?

• She used the same size balls to represent the planets.

• She made planets orbit the sun.

• The planets are not the correct distances from the sun.

• The solar system can't be modeled using actual objects.