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Planet Pavilion Questions
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Mercury
Earth
Jupiter
Saturn
Mars
Uranus
Neptune
Venus
2. How many planets are there in the Solar System? 8
3. Which planet is orbiting the Sun the quickest? Mercury
4. Which planet is orbiting the Sun the slowest? Neptune
5. Do you think that our orrery shows the solar system ‘to scale’? No
7. A planetary nebula formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel: Ring Nebula
The nearest large spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way: Andromeda Galaxy
What has been left behind after a big star exploded in 1054 AD: Crab Nebula
A 3 light-year tall pillar where new stars are forming: Carina Nebula
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Space Pavilion Questions
1. What do the telescopes at Jodrell Bank collect instead of light? Radio Waves
2. What colour on the infrared camera shows the hottest/coolest things?
This depends on the day’s camera settings. The hottest things are usually white and
the coolest things are usually blue or black.
3. Which part of you is the hottest? Face or head
4. Try rolling a ball into the black hole. Which force pulls the ball into the black hole?
Gravity
5. What force slows the ball down, making it fall into the hole? Friction
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a.
b.
c.
d.
When I touch the plasma ball I see a spark jump out of my hand - FALSE
When I touch the plasma ball I see a spark jump into my hand - TRUE
The electricity is attracted to my hand - TRUE
When it touch it, electricity goes through me and into the floor - TRUE
7. Which of these galaxies can you see through the telescope?
(Middle choice)
8. What happens to your pupil when the light goes dimmer? It gets bigger
An extension question you could ask at this point:
How does your pupil getting bigger in dim light explain why the Lovell telescope at
Jodrell Bank needs to be so big?
You pupil gets bigger to collect more light, so you can see fainter objects. In the
same way, bigger telescopes can collect more light, to see fainter objects in space.
9. Pupils will have ticked the four telescopes when found
Extension questions:
10. What happens to the light level when a planet moves in front of the camera? It goes
down (there is a dip)
11. Can you think how scientists can use this to find alien planets? By observing a star
and recording its light for a long time, scientists can look for dips. If there are
regular dips, it may mean there is a planet going around that star.
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Planet Path Questions
1. What is the object at the centre of the Solar System? The Sun
2. This planet is the closest planet to the Sun. It has lots of craters! Mercury
3. This planet is the hottest in the Solar System! Venus
4. Most of this planet’s surface is covered with water! Earth
5. This planet is sometimes known as the red planet! Mars
6. Which of the four rocky planets is the largest? Earth
7. How much wider than the Earth, do you think Jupiter is? Ten times as wide
8. How long do you think it would take for a rocket to fly straight from Earth to Saturn?
About 4 years
9. This planet spins on its side like a barrel! Uranus
10. This planet is the furthest planet from the Sun! Neptune
11. Are the planets in the Solar System spaced out evenly? No
12. What are the four outer planets made of? Gas
13. There used to be another planet, but in 2006 scientists decided it wouldn’t be called
a planet anymore.
a. What is its name?
Pluto
b. What kind of object is this called now?
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Dwarf planet
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Telescope Path Questions
1. The telescope collects radio waves.
2. What was the name of the first artificial satellite, launched in 1957? Sputnik
3. What can you use to get a better view of the stars? Telescope
4. What do we call the spinning core of an exploded star? Pulsar
5. Where is the home of the telescope? (Hint: this is two words) Jodrell Bank
6. You need to switch off your mobile phone before coming to visit the telescope.
7. The sides of the telescope, which contain lifts for engineers to go up the telescope.
Towers (completed already)
8. The telescope belongs to the University of Manchester.
9. The telescope is named after its creator, Sir Bernard Lovell.
10. What do we call the very bright objects which are powered by gas falling into supermassive black holes? Quasar
The bold squares spell out the word: ASTRONOMER
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