Stars and Space

The solar system is been estimated to be approximately...

• 4.6 trillion years old

• 13.7 billion years old

• 4.6 million years old

• 4.6 billion years old

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What is the name of baby stars?

• Dwarf

• Supergiant

• Protostars

• Nebulas

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Why do planets orbit the sun (and not float around in space)?

• the moons are keeping them in place

• They were hit by an asteroid

• they were hit by a comet

• the sun's gravity keeps them in place

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Kepler's first law states:

• Objects in the solar system travel in elliptical paths.

• The more mass an object has, the more gravity it has.

• The speed of an object's orbit changes.

• The closer an object is to the sun, the shorter its orbital period.

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What color of star is the coolest?

• Red

• Yellow

• Blue

• White

What are stars?

• Rocky bodies

• Hot exploding balls of gas

• 5 pointed shapes

• Hollywood actors

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To get the sun to appear bigger in our sky, how would the distance between the sun and earth have to change?

• Earth would have to move closer to the sun

• Earth would have to move farther from the sun

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Why do other stars appear so much smaller than the sun?

• They are much smaller

• They are so far away

• They are not as bright

• They are dwarf stars

What is the sun?

• Black Hole

• Light Bulb

• Star

• Supernova

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Which of the following is true?

• Earth is the center of the solar system

• The sun orbits the earth

• Gravity exists only on Earth

• The sun is the center of the solar system

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