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8th Grade Solar System and Beyond Worksheets

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Written by Adi Ackerman, Head Teacher

The solar system is the Sun and everything held in orbit by its gravity, and beyond it lie other stars and galaxies. There are 3 sheets for 8th grade here, each with an answer key. Scale the Universe in Light Travel Time runs from the Moon to the Andromeda galaxy, Jupiter's Moons and the Pull of Gravity uses NASA data for four moons, and Compare Gravitational Pulls Using Mass and Distance scales a pull as mass and distance change. The sheets practice MS-ESS1-2, MS-ESS1-3 and MS-PS2-4.

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A light year is the distance light travels in one year, about 9.5 trillion km. Light from an object 4.2 light years away takes 4.2 years to reach us. Scale the Universe in Light Travel Time compares objects from the Moon to the Andromeda galaxy.

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