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Tick Bait’s Universe Scavenger Hunt (Going UP)
Hard Questions
1. Which number below is larger?
1012
1013
2. The ___________________________________ is the tallest building on earth.
3. You and Tick Bait live in the _____________________________________ layer of the
atmosphere.
4. Most of the water on earth is _________________________________ water.
5. Circle the four inner planets.
Earth
Jupiter
Neptune
Mars
Mercury
Pluto
Saturn
Venus
6. The closest star to Planet Earth is __________________________________________
(Trick Question!!!)
7. What goes faster?
The Voyager 1 Spacecraft
or
8. Which is further from the earth? The Kuiper belt
9. True or False: All stars the same size.
A Bullet
or The Oort cloud
True
False
10. The ________________________________________galaxy is the closest large spiral
galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy.
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Harder Questions
1. How do you write 100 in scientific notation?
101
102
103
104
2. One reason we use scientific notation is because it makes very large and very
small numbers ______________________________to read.
For questions 3 and 4 refer to these four layers of the atmosphere:
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
3. Thunderhead clouds can rise through the
____________________________________layer of the atmosphere
but not the ___________________________________________layer.
4. Shooting stars occur in the _________________________________layer of the
atmosphere.
5. The inner planets are all made up of rock, while the outer planets are mostly
just ________________________________________ .
6. True or False: The edge of our solar system stops at the orbits of Neptune
and Pluto.
True
False
7. Other than our sun, the closest star to Planet Earth is
__________________________________________________________
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8. There are approximately _____________________________________ stars in our Milky
Way galaxy.
1 Million
100 Billion
200 Billion
One Trillion
9. The _______________________________________ is the largest known structure in the
universe?
10. It takes _______________________________ years for light to go from one side of our
galaxy to the other.
1000
10,000
100,000
1.000,000 (one million)
Hardest Questions
1. The Northern Lights occur in the __________________________layer of the atmosphere?
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
2. Most of earth’s fresh water is _______________________________________ .
3. True or False: You can see Venus in the middle of night.
True
False
4. What part of our solar system goes all the way to the edge of our solar system?
(Hint: Comets live there)
____________________________________________
5. True or False: The sun is 100 times heavier than everything else in the solar
system combined.
True
False
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For questions 6 and 7 refer to these four layers of the atmosphere:
Miles
Kilometers
Astronomical Units
Light Years
6. Scientists use ___________________________________ to measure distance within our
solar system.
7. Scientisst use ___________________________________ to measure distance between
stars.
8. We live in the __________________________________ spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy.
9. True or False: A solar system can have two suns.
True
False
10. It takes ___________________________________ years for the earth, sun and our solar
systems to orbit around the Milky Way galaxy.
100,000
500 million
250 million
1 Billion
11. The Andromeda galaxy is estimated to have _____________________stars.
1 billion
500 Billion
100 Billion
1 trillion
12. ______________________________________ is the SECOND closest large spiral galaxy to
our Milky Way galaxy.
13. We live in the ______________________________________supercluster.
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Answers for “Going Up”
Hard Questions
1. 1013
2. The Burj Khalifa in Dubai
3. Troposphere
4. Salt (or Ocean)
5. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
6. Our Sun
7. Voyager 1
8. Oort Cloud
9. False
10. Andromeda
Harder Questions
1. 102
2. Easier
3. Thunderhead clouds can rise through the Troposphere layer of the atmosphere
but not the Stratosphere layer.
4. Mesosphere
5. Gas (or atmosphere)
6. False
7. Proxima Centauri
8. 200 Billion (Conservative estimate)
9. Sloan Great Wall
10. 100,000
Hardest Questions
1. Mesosphere
2. Ice (or in Antarctica as ice)
3. False: Venus is only visible close to sunrise or sunset.
4. Oort Cloud
5. False it is much bigger – 700 times bigger
6. Astronomical Unit
7. Light Year
8. Orion
9. True
10. 250 Million
11. 1 Trillion
12. Triangulum
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13.Virgo
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