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THE UNIVERSE QUIZ If You Get Stuck, You’Ll Find Some Helpful Clues in Chapter 1 of the Britannica All New Children’S Encyclopedia THE UNIVERSE QUIZ If you get stuck, you’ll find some helpful clues in Chapter 1 of the Britannica All New Children’s Encyclopedia Question 1: Question 6: Which of the following elements were the only In which year was the Hubble Space two that existed soon after the Universe formed? Telescope launched? Hydrogen and helium 1980 Hydrogen and oxygen 1990 Carbon and hydrogen 2000 Helium and oxygen 2010 Question 2: Question 7: What is the opposite of matter? The asteroid belt lies between which two planets? Negative matter Jupiter and Saturn Antimatter Mars and Saturn Zeromatter Saturn and Neptune No matter Mars and Jupiter Question 3: Question 8: Planet Earth is located in which spiral Saturn’s moon Titan has liquid running over arm of the Milky Way galaxy? its surface. This liquid is similar to: The Orion Arm Water The Perseus Arm Slime The Major Arm Ectoplasm The Norma Arm Gasoline Question 4: Question 9: Approximately how long does one complete Up to how many people at a time live on the rotation of the Milky Way galaxy take? International Space Station? 24 years 3 240 years 6 24,000 years 12 240 million years 24 Question 5: Question 10: What scientific instrument was first used Which of the following is NOT the by ancient Greek astronomers to map name of a theory about how the stars in the night sky? Universe will end? Telescope The Big Crunch Astrolabe The Big Freeze Orrery The Big Dipper Oracle The Big Rip 5) Astrolabe, 6) 1990, 7) Mars & Jupiter, 8) Gasoline, 9) 6, 10) The Big Dipper Big The 10) 6, 9) Gasoline, 8) Jupiter, & Mars 7) 1990, 6) Astrolabe, 5) Answers www.britannica-books.com Years, Million 240 4) Arm, Orion The 3) Antimatter, 2) Helium, & Hydrogen 1) : Word Search Puzzle 03/09/2020, 14:09 THE UNIVERSE WORDSEARCHUNIVERSE WORDSEARCH D R T N B G K X V P E R M I R B T R P S I O O O T K M B W X E T I L L E T A S U O C G I L P F S O U E O N I L M I M R P R K X T S A O P A A M U B N K D D E Y E E E D A L P L Q L E O Q R D D U B Z S R T T U L W A A U S O L A R S Y S T E M N S C S L N Z B C B P L O J V E O X D Z O A L P E F E I M E L I W H H L G W H T V T K T T N V R P E C K I U K N C E W U A Y Y W S F M V T D B R J I Z C T Z N J X T T J N O F S E T S I A V F O A K T D U W G B O A R L U W N J E F M S Z L B G O I O N C E C L I P S E G Z T P M J B C V L V X T F Z I J B D G X A C K P N U S P F Z N L M F E K H Z H B K L Q P G S J Q A I J Z O F C E E C H T T M A F J I Q B C J Z Z U H R T D Q R X M I T X H L E F O G N H A S M K A E B C B C Q R Y O E W U U S P O Y H D N N I V H B L S F W Q R G I U P G F U Z J H G O V I C N V C Z O Can you find all these universe related words? TheyASTEROID can be found going up, down, diagonal, side to side and backwards! BLACKHOLE CONSTELLATION ECLIPSEASTEROID GALAXY SATELLITE EXOPLANETBLACK HOLE INTERSTELLAR SOLAR SYSTEM GALAXY CONSTELLATIONINTERSTELLAR MOON SPACECRAFT MOONECLIPSE NEBULAE SUN NEBULAEEXOPLANET ROCKET SUPERNOVA ROCKET SATELLITE SOLARSYSTEMYou can find lots more information about these words in SPACECRAFTChapter 1 of the Britannica All New Children’s Encyclopedia SUN SUPERNOVA www.britannica-books.com Created by Puzzlemaker at DiscoveryEducation.com http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/code/BuildWordSearch.asp Page 1 of 1 Criss Cross Puzzle 16/09/2020, 14:33 THE UNIVERSE CROSSWORD All these facts are taken from Chapter 1 of the Britannica All New Children’s Encyclopedia Universe Crossword DOWN 1 Dwarf planet that was previously a planet until ACROSS 2006 (5) 2 Theory of how the 3 This occurs when the Moon universe began (3,3,4) passes between the Earth and 7 Scientists believe that this the Sun (7) caused the extinction of the 4 The first scientist to use a dinosaurs! (8) telescope to view the stars, his 8 The most famous space first and last names are almost telescope (6) the same! (7) 9 This planet is most famous 5 This British scientist, Stephen for its huge ring system (6) , deepened our 11 Number of the successful understanding of black holes (7) Apollo Mission to land the 6 This constellation has three first man on the moon (6) stars that form a belt (5) 12 A NASA rover is looking for 10 The closest planet to the Sun (7) Across signs of life on this red 12 Name of a spiral galaxy and a 2. Theory of how the universe planetbegan (4) chocolate bar (5,3) 7. Scientists believe that this caused the extinction of the dinosaurs! 8. The most famous space telescope 9. This planet is most famous for its huge ring system 11. This successful Apollo Mission landed the first man on the moon 12. A NASA rover is looking for signs of life on this red planet Down www.britannica-books.com 1. Dwarf planet that was previously a planet until 2006 Down 3. This occurs when the Moon passes between the EarthWay Milky and12. theMercury, Sun10. Orion, 6. Hawking, 5. Galileo, 4. Eclipse, 3. Pluto, 1. - ANSWERS Across - 2. The Big Bang, 7. Asteroid, 8. Hubble, 9. Saturn, 11. Eleven, 12. Mars Mars 12. Eleven, 11. Saturn, 9. Hubble, 8. Asteroid, 7. Bang, Big The 2. - 4. The first scientist to use a telescope to view the stars, his first and last names are almost : the same! 5. This British scientist, Stephen .... deepened our understanding of black holes 6. This constellation has three stars that form a belt 10. The closest planet to our Sun 12. Spiral galaxy and a chocolate bar 13 of 13 words were placed into the puzzle. Created by Puzzlemaker at DiscoveryEducation.com http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/code/BuildCrissCross.asp Page 1 of 2.
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