Universe and the Solar System (unit 3)

Activity 1. Check your knowledge about the Big Bang (work in pairs)
1. The Big bang occurred
a. 50 billion years ago.
b. 15 million years ago.
c. 15 billion year ago.
d. 5 billion years ago.
2. Energy from the explosion transformed
a. into liquids.
b. into grains of matter.
c. into molecules.
d. into hydrogen and oxygen atoms.
3. Three hundred thousand years after the big bang
a. appeared the first oxygen and hydrogen atoms.
b. appeared the first water molecule.
c. appeared planets.
d. appeared the first hydrogen and oxygen atoms.
4. Atoms grouped together and formed
a. clouds of gas, stars and galaxies.
b. galaxies, stars and clouds of gas.
c. clouds of gas, galaxies and stars.
d. stars, galaxies and clouds of gas.


Activity 2. Listen to the song and complete the text (work in pairs).
a. The Earth revolves around the Sun at
b. Sun is the source of
c. We and all around us are moving in an outer spiral arm of the Galaxy we call
d. Our galaxy itself contains
e. Our galaxy is 100 000 . side-to-side.
f. The Universe itself is in continuous in all directions.

Activity 3. Wordsearch (search for the words
below hidden in the grid)
GALAXY VENUS UNIVERSE MERCURY
MARS SOLAR SYSTEM YEAR JUPITER
ASTRONOMER POLE SATURN NIGHT
SATELLITE PLANET MONTH MOON
ORBIT SPINNING EARTH COMET
AXIS DAY GRAVITY SKY SUN STAR

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A R B N G N Y O T E I U A H
D R I S E R N S V H N P T A
O N R T U O A I R E G N U D
G A D C M S N V V A O I R J
M D R E D U K N I M L T N E
S E R E L O P Y L T N O O M
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