Y7 Space

What are the nearest objects that you can see without a telescope?

• Artificial satellites such as the ISS - International Space Station which orbit earth

• A natural satellite the Moon

• Mercury

• The Sun

What is Earth's natural satellite?

• The ISS

• The Sun

• The Moon

• A comet

What is the difference between a comet and a meteor?

• A meteor becomes a comet when it hits the ground

• Comets are huge bits of rock and meteors are snowballs

• Comets are huge snowballs that orbit the sun and meteors are bits of dust and rock that move through the Earth's atmosphere

• Comets glow when they hit the Earth's atmosphere and meteors glow all of the time.

What do we call a meteor that makes it to the ground on Earth?

• Comet

• Meteorite

• Meteor

• A rock

What are most of the dots of light that we see in the night sky?

• Stars in our galaxy

• Starts in the milky way

• Stars in another galaxy

• Planets

What star is closest to us, with its light taking 8 minutes to get to us?

• The Stellar Wild Machine

• Vega

• Lucy in The Sky with Diamonds

• The Sun

Our galaxy is the milky way, which galaxy is nearest to us?

• Andromeda

• Canis major dwarf galaxy

• Virgo A

• Cygnus A

What do we call a collection of stars?

• A cluster

• A galaxy

• The Universe

• Space

How many moons does Saturn have?

• 1

• 146

• 600

• 60

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are all terrestrial planets, what does this mean?

• That humans live on them

• They are made of rock

• They are made of gas

• That aliens live on them