Introduction
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| If the solar system is reduced by the factor of 10 billion and the Sun is a size of a grapefruit, th Earth will be a size of ________. | A tip of a ballpoint pen
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| Iin a 1:10 billion scale, a distance to the Andromeda Galaxy is similar to a_________. | A trip across the United States.
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| What is a solar system? | An area where materials, including planets and moons, revolve around a star.
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| How the universe was born? | Big Bang
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| If the universe is put into a cosmic calendar, we, humans, would be born in...... | December 31st (11:59:95)
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| What si a star? | A large ball of heat and gas that gives off energy from nuclear fusion.
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| What is a planet? | A moderately large object that revolves around a star (the Sun) and reflects light.
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| What types of composition can planets have? | Rocky, icy, or gaseous
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| What is a galaxy? | An island of stars that is put together by gravity and orbits a common center.
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| What is the universe? | The sum of all matter and energy; everything between galaxies.
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| What two elements did the early universe has? | Hydrogen and helium
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| How are we, humans, and Earth made from "star stuff"? | Humans and the planet are made from heavier elements from other past stars
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| The farther we look back at a faraway galaxies, | The farther we look back in time (It would appear younger).
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| Why can't we see a galaxy 15 light years away, learning that the universe is 14 billion years old? | Looking at the galaxy means looking back in time before the universe existed.
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| How would it take to count the number of stars in our universe? | A few thousand years
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| In our cosmic calendar, when did the dinosaurs appear? | December 26th
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| When did the dinosaurs die in the cosmic calendar? | December 30th
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