PrisCilla Tormo, Daniel Farinas,

Michael khoury, Alan Diaz

• VOCABULARY

Parallax: The apparent change in position of

an object when seen from different places.
• Universe: all the space and everything in it.
• Light year: The distance that light travels in
one year.
• Scientific notation: uses power of ten to write
very large numbers or very small numbers, in
shorter form.
 INFORMATION
on chapter 3 lesson 1

- Astronomers often use parallax to measure distances to nearby stars.

- Astronomers look at a nearby star when earth is on one side of the sun.

- 6 months later, astronomers look at the same star when earth is on the
opposite side of the sun.

- They measure how much the nearby star appears to move against a
background of stars that are much farther away.

- Astronomers can use parallax to measure distances up to a few hundred light-

years from earth.

The distance to the nearest galaxy to the milky way in scientific notation is 2.4 x10
and the 22nd power meters away.
 Continuation…
- The universe is enormous, almost beyond imagination.

- Astronomers study objects as close as the moon and as far away as quasars.

- Astronomers frequently use scientific notation to describe sizes and distances in the universe.
Also for very big and very small numbers.

- In space light travels at the speed of about 300 million meters per second.

- A light year is about 9.46 trillion kilometers.

- Light year is a unit of distance, not time.

- Each number is written as the product of a number between 1 and 10.

Questions
• 1) About how far is the Sun from • 2)What is the nearest galaxy to the
Earth? Milky Way in scientific notations?
• A.1.6 x 10 to 11 power
• B. 1.5 x 10 to 11 power
• C. 1.5 x 10 to 13 power • 3)What do Astronomers use to
determine the distance of nearby
• D. 1.6 x 10 to 12 power
stars?
Questions
• 4)A Light year is the distance that light travels in one year, about
9.46 trillion ___________

• 5)What is the speed of light?

• 6)Astronomers define the _______ as all of space and everything in it?

• 7)Astronomical _________ are measurement taken from planets to

the sun.
MORE Questions
• 8)What is 55,000,000,000,000 written in scientific notation?

• 9)Scientific notations uses powers of 10 to write very large or very

small number in shorter form. T/F

• 10)Parallax is the apparent change in position of an object when you

look at it from different places. T/F

• 11)Astronomers can use a parallax to measure distances up to a few

thousand light years. T/F
MORE Questions
• 12)The less the nearby star appears to move the further away it is?
T/F

• 13)About what is 100,000,000,000 in scientific notation?

• (A.10 to 10th power) (B. 10 to 12th power) (C.10 to 11th power)
(D. 10 to 9th power)

• 14)What do astronomers use to describe size and distance in the

universe?
• (A. light year) (B. Scientific notation) (C. parallax) (D. universe)
Answers
• 1)B 2) 2.4 x 10 to 20th power 3)Parallax
• 4)Kilometer 5) about 300,000,000 meter per sec
• 6)universe 7)units 8)5.5 x 10 to 13th power
• 9)True 10)True 11)False 12)True
• 13) C 14) B