MEGA quiz! Our Solar System LMS Grade 5/6

D4 A jet traveling around VY Canis Majoris,  would take  ________   traveling at ______mph.

d4 luminosity is measured in:

d4 The intrinsic brightness of a celestial body

d6 _________________ causes the Earth's seasons.

D5 Earth has ______ different time zones.

d4 the largest discovered star in our solar system

d2 Our sun is _________________ times bigger than Earth.

d8 the ________  ______ prevents the sun from keeping us warm.

Finish this fact based argument d1:  "Let me tell you where Earth is located......"

d2 Early humans used their imaginations to fill the sky with 

Mrs. Donna's favorite star

Light admitted from the sun takes _____ minutes to reach the earth.

d2 No star lives forever.

d3 what effect does the distance from Earth have on the appeared brightness of stars?

It would take our spaceship, planet Earth, 16 days to travel to:

The earth has _______ different time ones.  d5

d2 Human beings have always been fascinated by 

d2 all stars are made of these 2 elements. 

Earth is the _________ planet from the sun.

d7 Using the shadow recording chart, at 8:16 a.m. the longest shadow was _____".

d2 using your research, explain how constellations helped the early people.

d6 earth is closest to the sun during which month?

The earth turns _____ degrees in 24 hours, and _____ degrees in one hour.

NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST

A cloud formed from an exploding star d2

D4 Main sequence stars make up _____% of the observed stars in our solar system.

a unit of astronomical distance equal to the distance that light travels

In late December, the sun is at a _______ angle to the ______ for the Northern Hemisphere.  

all the land and H2O found below the equator:

d1 Our solar system consists of

d4 Another name for our sun is

The terrestrial planets are:

________________ is also known as the morning star.

d4 The surface temperature of stars and planets is measured in 

Stars can be different in the amount of heat they give off.  d2

d1 The Milky Way is an example of this with well over a billion stars:

Northern Territory is defined as:

d8 Why is it so cold on earth during late December?

d1 a red giant would be considered an example of: