The title of the movie that we watched on Monday was "The Journey to the Edge of the Universe". The journey back to the beginning of time, the moment of creation, begins with a single and simple step. A single step up, just 60 miles up, and we leave the atmosphere of the Earth. Dozens of astronauts have come before us, twelve of those astronauts walked on Earth's nearest satellite, the ___ ___ ___ ___. This video also showed Neil Armstrong's footprints, which may survive million of years maybe longer than us. The narrator also mentioned that our time is limited.
The movie then journeyed to the planet nearest to the Earth. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ This planet is also called Morning Star, the Evening Star, and a sister to our planet Earth.It is about the same size of our Earth. The clouds are made up sulphuric acid with carbon dioxide. This is one angry Goddess, the air is noxious, unbearable, and hot, approaching 900 degrees. The narrator mention that there is nothing can survive on the planet
The second planet the movie visited was ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___. This is a rocky planet with no atmosphere, with the result being that the temperature swings wildly between 800 degrees Fahrenheit during the day and -275 degrees Fahrenheit at night. The core of the planet is a large iron core.
The movie then visited the ___ ___ ___, the star at the center of the solar system, a giant sphere of hydrogen and helium, a nuclear fusion furnace.
The third planet visited was ___ ___ ___ ___ . This planet is the fourth planet from the center of the solar system and is also called the red planet. The planet is red and dead. There is wind and when there is wind then there is air. No ozone layer, nothing to protect any creatures who might choose to live there from deadly space radiation. If they have any. It is hard to believe anything could live here because of the kinds of weather that they have. There was also this the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, taller than Mount Everest.
Between the red planet the largest planet in the solar system is the ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ __ belt.
The largest planet in the solar system is the gas giant ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___. A giant red spot can be seen, a vast storm larger than the planet earth.
Beyond the largest planet is the "ringed planet," ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___. This planet is also a gas giant.
The ringed planet has a moon called ___ ___ ___ ___ ___. There was so much to see in this planet. There is an atmosphere. There is wind, "rain", many different seasons, rivers, lakes, and oceans, that looks familiar and similar to our own planet which is Earth. And yet they are completely different: rives, lakes, and oceans of liquid methane, natural gas, an atmosphere with nitrogen but no oxygen. There is no way life can develop in on this moon of the ringed planet.
Beyond the ringed planet is a planet unknown to the ancients, the planet ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___. This is the first planet to be discovered using a telescope. The planet is tipped over at a 98 degree angle, the north pole now facing the sun. 42 years of sunlight will strike the north pole until the sun sets as the planet moves around the sun.
The next planet out is named for the Roman god of the sea, ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___. This planet is also a gas giant, but not as large as the largest planet nor the ringed planet. The planet is covered in hydrogen, helium, and methane gas. The planet has very high wind speeds. High winds speeds means that the atmosphere has a lot of kinetic energy. But the planet is too far from the sun for the sun to be the source of the energy. Something else is creating the wind.
Beyond this last planet there are no more "full size" planets. The dwarf planet ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ used to be the "ninth planet" but was demoted and is now called a dwarf planet. The surface appears to be frozen water ice and carbon compounds.
Explain what the following are:
Alpha centuri:
Nebula:
Supernova:
Hypernova:
Black hole:
The Pillars of Creation:
Based on the following data and chart:
Which object flies the "best" - the farthest for a given launch velocity?
Based on the data and chart, what tells you that this is object flies the best?
Which object flies the "worst" - the shortest for a given launch velocity?
Based on the data and chart, what tells you that this is object flies the worst?
antimatter bananas big bang big rip
black holes electromagnetic galaxies gravitational
mass protons quarks rotation
strong nuclear weak nuclear
Atoms are made up of electrons, neutrons, and ______________.
Electrons are very very small. Electrons are so small that they effectively have no inside. Protons and neutrons are larger. Protons and neutrons are made up of ____________.
The positron is the opposite of the electron. The positron has the same size and mass as the electron, but the opposite charge. The positron is made of matter which also the opposite of the matter from which an electron is made. When a positron and electron collide, they annihilate each other. The positron is an example of ______________________.
There are only four forces. The four forces are:
__________________________
______________________________
____________ ______________
________ ______________
The Higgs boson would provide an explanation of why matter has ________.
Vera Rubin studied the rotation speed of ________________.
In Vera Rubin's study did stars farther from the center orbit more slowly as predicted by Newton's laws? ____
When Carlos Frenk ran computer simulations of the universe, galaxies failed to form until dark matter was:
removed
one fifth the amount of visible matter
equal to the amount of visible matter
five times the amount of visible matter
Does dark matter interact with itself? _____
Saul Perlmutter was studying the rate of expansion of the universe. Perlmutter found that the universe is...
... expanding at a rate that is decreasing over time
... expanding at a constant rate over time
... expanding at a rate that is increasing over time
Phantom energy is a hypothetical form of dark energy that is even more potent than the cosmological constant at increasing the expansion of the universe. The remarkable feature is that phantom energy possesses a negative kinetic energy. If it exists, it could cause the expansion of the universe to accelerate so quickly that a scenario known as the ______ ______ would occur.
Draw a picture for a child of the ball pattern for the site swap equation 3333333333...
Draw a picture for a child of the ball pattern for the site swap equation 5151515151...
