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ELA Day 5 Exit Ticket "Stars that Aren't Round" [Week of 3.1]
By RACHAEL FRITZ
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ELA
"Stars that Aren't Round"
Directions: Read the question. Fill in the bubble next to the corresponding question number on your answer sheet.
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Question 1
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Question 2
2.
Which question is answered in the picture 1?
How flat is Regulus compared with other stars?
How bright is Regulus compared with Altair?
How far is Leo the Lion from the Sun?
How many stars make up the constellation Leo the Lion?
Question 3
3.
Which phrase describes how the text of paragraphs 7 through 10 is MAINLY organized?
by comparison and contrast
in chronological order
as problem and solution
as a list of ordered steps
Question 4
4.
Based on the information in the text, what might be said about any squooshed star?
It spins around very quickly.
It looks similar to the Sun.
It has no mass at all.
It is too far away to see with a telescope.
Question 5
5.
Which sentence from the text BEST supports the answer in question 5?
In recent years, astronomers have discovered several squooshed stars.
The Sun is round because it has lots of mass.
But even stars with lots of mass can spin so fast they're not round.
Long ago, telescopes revealed that Regulus spins fast.
Question 6
6.
Which sentences from paragraphs 6–10 BEST support the idea that scientists need to look at different views of the same star in order to see its shape?
Regulus is 79 light-years from Earth. . . . But it gives off lots of light, so you can see it without using a telescope.
Long ago, telescopes revealed that Regulus spins fast. Harold McAlister, an astronomer at Georgia State University, wondered if the star might not be round.
An interferometer combines light from more than one telescope to see stars super clearly. . . . In 2004, McAlister and his colleagues used an interferometer that combinedlight from six telescopes atop Mount Wilson in California.
Instead, its width is greater than its height. The distance from one side of the star to the other (at the equator) is a lot more than the distance from the "top" to the "bottom"(from the north pole to the south pole).
Question 7
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Which words from the text describe a
ROUND
star?
"like a beach ball that someone sat on" (paragraph 3)
"the Sun has lots of gravity, which holds the Sun together" (paragraph 4)
"its width is greater than its height" (paragraph 10)
"Achernar is the flattest star known" (paragraph 12)
Question 8
8.
Which paragraph is supported by Picture 1?
paragraph 3
paragraph 5
paragraph 11
paragraph 12
