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Answers to the Find It! Quizzes
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for Pre-readers
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Answers for Find It! in ZoomAstronomy.com

These print-outs introduce young students to research on the Internet using Zoom Astronomy. Students use the site to look up the answers to a set of questions.

Activity Answers:
Miscellaneous Topics
 Set of 10 Questions about Stars
  1. Gases
  2. Fusion
  3. Hydrogen
  4. Binary
  5. The Milky Way Galaxy
  6. The Sun
  7. Smaller stars
  8. Atmosphere
  9. Open cluster
  10. Yes

Set of 10 Questions about the Solar System

  1. 9 planets
  2. Mercury
  3. Pluto (sometimes Neptune)
  4. Jupiter
  5. Saturn
  6. Asteroids
  7. Sun
  8. Rock
  9. Comets
  10. Mars

Set of 10 Questions about the Sun

  1. A star
  2. Gaseous
  3. January
  4. At its core (the center)
  5. At the surface (or the photosphere) (or at sunspots on the surface or photosphere)
  6. Hydrogen
  7. Helium
  8. Fusion, also called atomic fusion or nuclear fusion
  9. About 4.5 billion years old
  10. Colder

Set of 10 Questions about the Moon

  1. Smaller
  2. Yes
  3. Circular
  4. No
  5. Armstrong and Aldrin
  6. 1969
  7. No
  8. The moon
  9. Ejecta
  10. The Earth

Set of 10 Questions about Comets

  1. The Sun
  2. Ice, gas, and dust
  3. Gaseous
  4. When the comet is near the Sun
  5. Elliptical
  6. Halley's comet
  7. sublimination (or subliming)
  8. No
  9. Meteor shower
  10. Sungrazers

Set of 10 Questions about Asteroids

  1. Mars and Jupiter
  2. No
  3. Smaller
  4. Rocks or metal
  5. An asteroid hitting the Earth
  6. One of the following: Pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, or ammonites,
  7. Ceres
  8. Planetoids or minor planets
  9. Yes
  10. 40,000

Set of 10 Questions about Meteoroids, Meteors, and Meteorites

  1. meteoroid
  2. smaller than pebbles
  3. asteroids
  4. meteor
  5. shooting stars and falling stars
  6. meteor shower
  7. yes
  8. meteorite
  9. rare
  10. All of the above

Set of 10 Questions about Continental Drift

  1. Both
  2. The mantle
  3. Basalt
  4. Granite
  5. Subduction zone
  6. Seafloor spreading
  7. Fold mountains
  8. Pangaea
  9. Alfred Wegener
  10. Glossopteris or Mesosaurus

Planets
 Set of 10 Questions about the Planets
  1. Around sunrise or sunset
  2. Venus
  3. Venus
  4. Yes
  5. Yes
  6. Yes
  7. No
  8. Strong (or extreme) seasons
  9. Yes
  10. 1930

Set of 10 Questions about Mercury

  1. Rock
  2. Yes
  3. Thin
  4. The Moon
  5. Black
  6. No
  7. None
  8. Light
  9. No
  10. Craters

Set of 10 Questions about Venus

  1. The "morning star" or the "evening star"
  2. About the same size
  3. Thick
  4. Carbon dioxide
  5. Sulphuric acid
  6. Yes
  7. Second-nearest
  8. The hottest
  9. None
  10. No

Set of 10 Questions about Earth

  1. One year
  2. About 93 million miles (149,600,000 km)
  3. Almost circular
  4. Denser than water
  5. Slowing down
  6. Iron and nickel
  7. Nitrogen
  8. Troposphere
  9. The tilt of the Earth's axis
  10. About 4 times larger

Set of 10 Questions about Mars

  1. Smaller
  2. Lighter
  3. Deimos and Phobos
  4. Rock
  5. Yes
  6. No
  7. Olympus Mons
  8. Thin
  9. Carbon dioxide
  10. 1965

Set of 10 Questions about Jupiter

  1. Gas
  2. 11 times
  3. 4 large moons and 12 small ones.
  4. Galileo
  5. Hydrogen
  6. 9.8 Earth hours
  7. 11.86 Earth years
  8. A storm
  9. Yes
  10. Yes

Set of 10 Questions about Saturn

  1. Ice chunks (and some rock)
  2. No
  3. No
  4. Hydrogen gas
  5. A flattened sphere
  6. 18 named moons and about a dozen that are unnamed
  7. About 6 miles (or 1.5 km) thick
  8. Galileo
  9. The Cassini division
  10. Ganymede, which orbits Jupiter

Set of 10 Questions about Uranus

  1. 4 times
  2. Less
  3. 84.07 Earth years
  4. Extreme seasons
  5. Hydrogen
  6. No
  7. 21 years
  8. Yes
  9. 5
  10. 1781

Set of 10 Questions about Neptune

  1. No
  2. Seas
  3. Yes
  4. 3 main moons plus five smaller moons
  5. Yes
  6. A storm
  7. Hydrogen gas
  8. 1,500 miles per hour (2,400 kph)
  9. No
  10. 164.8 Earth years

Set of 10 Questions about Pluto

  1. No
  2. Rocky
  3. Smaller than the Earth
  4. 247.7 Earth years
  5. Quite eccentric
  6. 17.15° (degrees)
  7. Yes
  8. Clyde W. Tombaugh in 1930
  9. No
  10. Black


Level: Grades 2-6 Subject: astronomy, reading, writing, introduction to research on the internet
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