Unit 2 Lesson 1: Structure of the Universe Name:

Slide 1
1. What is the title of this lesson?

2. What are the vocabulary words for this lesson?

a. b.

c. d.

e. f.

Slide 2

3. Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the ____________________ is 4.2 _________________

_______________ or 39,900,000,000 km away.

4. If you could travel a kilometer per second, it would take you more than ___________

___________________ years to reach it.

Slide 3: An ORBIT is the amount of time it takes a planet to go around the sun once.
Earths orbit is 365 days or 1 year.
5. The suns temperature is about ___________________C at its surface.
6. Mercury orbits the sun _________________________.
7. Venus is sometimes called Earths ________________, because it is about the same size as

Earth.
8. Earth is not perfectly _________________ It bulges slightly at the middle because of its

___________________.
9. Mars like _________________________, Venus, and ___________________________, is terrestrial.
10. Jupiter is a gas giant __________________________ quickly. A Jupiter day is only about _________

Earth hours.
11.The lovely rings around gaseous Saturn are ______________ _______________________________.
12.Uranus is the farthest planet visible _____________________ a telescope. Uranus takes about

______ Earth ____________________ to orbit the sun.

13.It takes about ________ Earth years for Neptune to complete an orbit.

Based on this information, and the image on your computer screen, make two detailed

observations about our solar system.

Unit 2 Lesson 1: Structure of the Universe Name:
14.

15.

Slide 4
16.Describe the hierarchy of the universe beginning with Earth and ending with the universe.
(Use page 56-57 for help.)

Slide 5
17.Our Earth is _________________________ km across.
18.How many United States fit across the Earth? __________
19.About __________ Earths would fit across the diameter of the sun.
20.About how many Earths would fit across the sun? ____________
21.Our solar system is about __________________ times the width of the sun.
22.About how many suns can fit across the solar system? _________
23.Our galaxy is ________________________________ times wider than our solar system.
24.About how many solar systems would fit across our galaxy? ________

Slide 6
25.How far away is the Earth from the sun? __________________________________________
26.A light-year is the _______________________ light can travel in one __________.

Slide 7
27.Closest galaxy: ____________________________________________
28.Closest star:_______________________________________________
29.How long will it take the Voyager 2 to reach our closest star?

__________________________________________

Slide 8
30.What is a star? Circle all correct answers:
a. A large celestial body
b. A large body composed of a rocky crust
c. Composed of gas
d. Emits light and/or other electromagnetic radiation
Unit 2 Lesson 1: Structure of the Universe Name:
Slide 9: Match the term with the correct definition. Write the letter next to the correct
term.

Term Answ Definition

er
31.Universe a. Mercury, Venus, Mars

32. Gas giant planet b. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

33.Sun c. A star and objects orbiting around it

34.Solar system d. A typical star

35.Galaxy e. Collection of stars, gas and dust

36.Terrestrial planet f. Space and all the matter and energy in it.

Slide 10
37.Describe what kinds of things are in the universe.

Slide 11
What are the main points in this lesson?
38.Our ______________________ _______________________ includes Earth and other planets.
39.Our solar system is part of the _____________________ _______________

___________________________.
40.The __________________________ is made up of billions of ____________________________________.
41.Distances in the universe can be measured in ______________________-

__________________________.
Use pages 53-61 to answer the following questions.
42.What two factors are essential to life on Earth?

43.What do you think would happen if those resources were no longer present on Earth? Be sure
to describe what the Earth would be like without BOTH resources.
Unit 2 Lesson 1: Structure of the Universe Name:

44.Compare and contrast a star and a planet. You must have at least 6 similarities and

differences.