Tick Bait’s Universe Table of Contents – Getting Larger
Level
100
101
102
Page Title
Tick Bait
Questions Answered
Who is Tick Bait?
T.B’s Back Yard Why do we use scientific
notation?
T.B’s House
What layer of the atmosphere do
we live in?
103
T.B’s
Neighborhood
What is the tallest building on
earth?
104
Salt Lake City
105
106
The Great Salt
Lake
Utah
What is the difference between
the troposphere and the
stratosphere?
Where do shooting stars occur?
107
North America
108
Earth
109
Moon
1010
A Whole Lotta
Space
Venus
1011
1012
Sun & Inner
Planets
1013
Outer Planets
1014
Kuiper Belt
How big is earth’s
thermosphere?
How much of the earth is
covered by water?
How lucky are we to have the
earth?
What were the Apollo moon
missions? Why were they
important?
What is space like in outer
space?
How is Venus like the earth?
How is it different?
How much bigger is the sun than
the earth and the other three
inner planets?
How much bigger are the four
outer planets than the earth?
What is the Kuiper Belt?
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Naïve Assumption Debunked
It is easy to comprehend the
universe without zooming in
and out by powers of 10.
It is easy to read very large
numbers.
As humans, there are a lot of
places, in the universe, we can
live.
The Empire State Building is
almost as tall as the tallest
building on earth.
The atmosphere gets colder and
colder as you rise up into it.
Airplanes fly high in earth’s
atmosphere.
The space shuttle flew above the
earth’s atmosphere.
Most of the water on earth can
be used for drinking and
farming.
When you are standing on the
earth you are not moving.
Astronaut flew to the moon and
back in one spacecraft.
The space in outer space is
completely empty.
Humans could live on Venus.
The sun is about half the weight
of the entire solar system.
The four outer planets are rocky
like the earth
Astronomers say Pluto is a
planet.
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Tick Bait’s Universe Table of Contents – Getting Larger (Continued)
Level
1015
Page Title
Voyager 1
1016
Oort Cloud
1017
Closest Stars
1018
1019
Star
Neighborhood
Close Big Stars
1020
Spiral Arm
1021
Milky Way
Galaxy
1022
Milky Way
Galaxy
1023
Galaxy
Neighborhood
Virgo
Supercluster
1024
1025
1026
1027
More Super
Clusters
Deep Space
Observable
Known
Universe
Questions Answered
What is the Voyager 1
spacecraft? Where is it? How
fast is it going? Why is it
important?
What is the Oort cloud?
Besides our sun, what is the
closest star to us?
What are some of our closest
neighbor stars like?
Are all stars the same size?
What is a Nebula? Where do
stars form?
How can that band of white we
see in our night sky, that we call
the Milky Way, be a galaxy?
How wide is our own Milky Way
galaxy? What is in the center of
large spiral galaxies?
What is the closest large spiral
galaxy to our Milky Way Galaxy?
What is beyond our Milky Way
galaxy?
What is beyond our own Virgo
supercluster?
What is the relationship
between distance and time when
measuring distance in the
universe?
How far can we see into the
universe?
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Naïve Assumption Debunked
Astronomers use miles and
kilometers to measure distance
in space.
The solar system ends at the
orbits of Neptune and Pluto.
Travel between stars is realistic.
All stars are the same.
The sun is the only star with
planets orbiting around it.
Stars and solar systems have
always been around.
Astronomers use miles and
kilometers to measure distance
in space.
Our solar system is stationary in
the universe.
Galaxies never collide.
There is nothing larger than a
galaxy.
There is nothing larger than a
supercluster.
Everything in science has been
discovered.
We can see the entire universe.
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Tick Bait’s Universe Table of Contents – Getting Smaller
Level
Page Title
Tick Bait
Sample Question Answered
Who is Tick Bait?
10-2
Tick Bait’s
Ticks
Tick
10-3
Mite
10-4
Cells
10-5
Bacteria
What does the red square on
the screen mean?
What do ticks and spider have
in common? What do ticks eat?
What animal is smaller than a
tick?
How many cells do you have in
your body?
Where do bacteria live?
10-6
Bacteria Close
Up
Virus
DNA
DNA Close Up
Oxygen Atom
How many cells do bacteria
have?
What is a virus?
What does DNA do?
How is DNA a code?
How small is an atom?
10-11
Atomic
Orbital
What are the parts that make
up an atom?
10-12
Inside Atom
10-13
Inside Atom
10-14
Nucleus of
Atom
10-15
10-16
10-17
Proton
Inside the
Proton
Quarks
10-18
Up Quark
How much smaller is the
nucleus of an atom when
compared to the atom itself?
Where and how do electrons
fly?
What does it mean if a nucleus
has 8 Protons? What is an
element?
How small is a proton?
What is inside a proton? How
did scientists discover quarks?
What are the types of quarks
inside a proton?
Why are quarks important?
How does a proton’s quarks
differ form those in a neutrons?
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10-1
10-7
10-8
10-9
10-10
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Naïve Assumption Debunked
It is easy to comprehend the
universe without zooming in and
out by powers of 10.
It is easy to read very small
decimal numbers.
You probably do not have mites
living on you.
Some living things do not have
cells.
I don’t have that many bacteria on
me right now.
All bacteria make your sick.
All experts think viruses are alive.
Not all living things have DNA.
Some things are not made of
atoms.
All electrons fly in perfect circles
or spheres around their atom’s
nucleus.
Since atoms make up everything
around us they must be solid
themselves.
Electron are about the same size
as protons and neutrons.
All atom nuclei are the same.
Protons last about a billion years.
Protons are the smallest unit of
matter.
All quarks are the same.
Quarks can be broken down into
small pieces like atoms and
protons.
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