Study Guide for Distances in Space and Hierarchial Relationships

What is the Milky Way?

• A galaxy

• A planet

• A star

• A comet

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What is the Universe?

• All of space and everything in it

• A single planet in the solar system

• Only the stars we can see at night

• Just the Earth and its atmosphere

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What is an Astronomical Unit?

• The average distance from the Earth to the Sun

• The distance from the Earth to the Moon

• The distance from the Sun to Pluto

• The diameter of the Earth

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What is a Light Year?

• The distance light travels in one year

• The time taken by light to travel around the Earth

• The brightness of a star

• A unit of time equal to one year

What is a Solar System?

• A star and all the objects that orbit it

• A group of galaxies

• A single planet and its moon

• A collection of asteroids only

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What is a Galaxy?

• A massive system of stars, gas, dust, dark matter bound together by gravity

• A small cluster of planets orbiting a single star

• A single star with no planets or moons

• A comet traveling through space

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Which of these are a classification of galaxies in the universe?

• Elliptical, Irregular and Spiral Galaxies

• Solar Systems, Planets, Stars

• Moons, Asteroids, Comets

Which statement is true of Milky Way galaxy? The Sun is one star that can be found in the Milky Way galaxy.

• True

• False

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A Galaxy is....

• a massive system of stars, gas, dust, dark matter bound together by gravity

• a single star

• a planet

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The galaxy we live in is the Milky Way galaxy, and it is a spiral galaxy. Galaxies contain billions of which of the following?

• Planets

• Stars

• Moons

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