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1) The ______________________ is all there is, all there was and all there ever will be.
2) Our cosmic address is
1. _________________________________________
2. _________________________________________
3. _________________________________________
4. _________________________________________
5. _________________________________________
6. _________________________________________

3) A belt of __________________________________________ circles the sun between Mars and Jupiter.

4) The spacecraft that has traveled the farthest is the __________________________________________.
5) The _____________________________________________ is a mass of comets that surround our solar
system.
6) Humans can only see a small portion of the light that exists in the cosmos. We can use
_______________________________ to reveal things we cannot see with our eyes alone, such as
rogue planets.
7) _____________________________________ was the first astronomer to propose that the Earth was
not the center of the universe.
8) _____________________________________ was a monk who lived in the 1600’s and believed in an
infinite, or never ending, universe. He was tortured and killed by the Roman Catholic Church for his
beliefs.
9) __________________________________ was the first person to look through a telescope.
10) The universe is estimated to be about ___________________________________________ years old.
11) If the history of all time were condensed into one calendar year (with one month = 1 billion years and
one day = 40 million years), our universe would have formed at the following pace:
1. January 1st : _______________________________________________________
2. January 10th : ______________________________________________________
3. March 15th : _______________________________________________________
4. August 31st :________________________________________________________
5. September 21st :____________________________________________________
6. November 9th :______________________________________________________
7. December 28th :_____________________________________________________
8. December 30th :_____________________________________________________
12) All Recorded History makes up the last ___________________________________ on December 31st of
the cosmic calendar
13) Humans made their first paintings on cave walls ____________________________________ years ago.
14) Humans began studying _________________________ to predict seasons and migrations of animals.
15) Humans first developed writing ______________________________ years ago.

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1) Cosmos
2) Cosmic Address
1. Earth
2. Solar System
3. Milky Way Galaxy
4. Local Group
5. Virgo Supercluster
6. Observable Universe
3) Rocky Asteroids
4) Voyager I
5) Oort Cloud
6) Infrared
7) Copernicus
8) Giordano Bruno
9) Galileo
10) 13.8 billion years (thousand million)
11) Cosmic Calendar
1. Jan 1 – Big Bang
2. Jan 10 – First stars created
3. March 15 – Milky Way Formed
4. August 31 – Our sun created
5. September 21 – Life began on Earth
6. November 9 – Life began evolving and procreating
7. December 28 – First flower bloomed
8. December 30 – Asteroid struck Earth
12) 14 seconds
13) 30,000
14) Astronomy
15) 6,000

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