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Objective – After watching a DVD, I can compare the distance of objects within the universe.
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Cosmic Voyage Video Worksheet
1. Things are not always what they seem.
a. True
b. False
2. In the everyday world, what is the scale we use to determine what is small and large?
a. Houses
b. Cars
c. Ourselves
d. Measuring devices
3. When we reach 104 meters (four powers of ten), what do we see?
a. Adriatic Sea.
b. Mainland of Italy.
c. Islands of Venice.
d. All of the above.
4. When we reach 108 meters (eight powers of ten), what do we see?
a. Just the entire Earth.
b. Earth and the Moon .
c. Earth and Mars.
d. Earth and the Sun.
5. When we reach 1013 meters (thirteen steps from St. Mark’s Square), what do we see?
a. Just the inner Solar System.
b. The planets out to Saturn.
c. The entire Solar System.
d. The Solar System and the Oort Cloud.
6. To journey to the nearest star in today’s spacecraft would take over ______________
years. (Enter a number; no commas!)
7. The Milky Way is what type of galaxy?
a. Elliptical
b. Irregular
c. Spiral
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Objective – After watching a DVD, I can compare the distance of objects within the universe.
8. When we reach 1023 meters (twenty-three powers of ten), the shining lights we see are
stars.
a. True
b. False
9. The universe is…
a. expanding.
b. contracting.
c. not moving.
10. When we are fifteen billion light years from Venice, we reach…
a. the edge of the visible universe.
b. more galaxies.
c. the end of the universe.
d. a different universe.
11. This is an example of how we use technology to help us learn about the Solar System
and the universe.
a. Amateur astronomers using their telescopes to study the night sky.
b. The Hubble Space Telescope.
c. Using computers to help us understand data we collect.
d. All of the above.
12. What can escape a black hole?
a. Light
b. Interstellar dust
c. Interstellar gas
d. Nothing
13. The deeper astronomers look into space…
a. the farther back they look in time.
b. they find possible places where we could live.
c. they don’t see anything.
d. they look into the future.
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Objective – After watching a DVD, I can compare the distance of objects within the universe.
Cosmic Voyage Video Worksheet
1. a (2 choices)
2. c
3. d
4. b
5. c
6. 100000
7. c (3 choices)
8. b (2
choices)
9. a (3 choices)
10. a
11. d
12. d
13. a
Scoring Guide
11-13 – 3
9-10 – 2.5
6-8 – 2
4-5 – 1.5
3–1
1-2 – .5
0–0
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