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- 1. Multiple Choice
Two students were debating life on earth. Which statement best supports what you have learned in the past? Which statement is most true?
Any planet can have life on it - Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune for example. Earth just happens to be a lucky planet where life has been able to become established.
Not every planet has the ingredients to support life. Earth has life because of water, its atmosphere, and energy from the sun.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Two students were debating distances in our solar system. Which statement best supports what you have learned in the past? Which statement is most true?
The sun is way farther away from the earth than the moon.
The moon is way farther away from the earth than the sun.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Two students were debating how to classify the sun. Which statement best supports what you have learned in the past? Which statement is most true?
The sun has the characteristics of a star and not the characteristics of a planet.
The sun has the characteristics of a planet and not the characteristics of a star.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Two students were debating the characteristics of planets. Which statement best supports what you have learned in the past? Which statement is most true?
Planets vary greatly in size, composition (what they are made of), and distance from their main star.
Planets are basically all the same because they are all composed of the same solid substances.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Two students were debating the characteristics of stars. Which statement best supports what you have learned in the past? Which statement is most true?
Stars vary in size, color, hotness, brightness, and distance from earth.
Stars are basically all the same in size, color, hotness, brightness, and distance from earth.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Two students were debating how astronomers use telescopes. Which statement best supports what you have learned in the past? Which statement is most true?
Telescopes are used by astronomers to capture many different forms of data from outer space - all kids of waves - radio, micro, infrared, light, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma-ray.
Telescope are used by astronomers to capture light only.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Two students were debating about what a lightyear represents. Which statement best supports what you have learned in the past? Which statement is most true?
A lightyear represents the speed of a space vessel that is traveling at a very fast rate of speed, like warp speed.
A lightyear is the distance that light travels in one year.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Two students were debating HUMAN space travel. Which statement best supports what you have learned in the past? Which statement is most true?
Humans have already visited planets other than earth such as Mars.
Humans have traveled as far as our moon, but not farther.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Two students were debating the composition of planets. Which statement best supports what you have learned in the past? Which statement is most true?
Pretty much all planets are made up of rock. If they weren't made of rock they'd fall apart.
Planet are composed of a variety of substances - ice, rock, water, and gas to name a few.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Two students were debating how common meteor/asteroid/space debris hits earth. Which statement best supports what you have learned in the past? Which statement is most true?
Space debris strikes the earth all the time.
Space debris is very rare. When it hits it is guaranteed to be a disaster.
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