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Astronomy 50
Contribució de: Trieu
(Autor original: Collins)
  • 1. True of False The Sun is the largest star in our galaxy
A) True
B) False
  • 2. True or False The sun has more gravity than all the other bodies in our solar system
A) True
B) False
  • 3. Which planet is largest?
A) Mercury
B) Saturn
C) Uranus
D) Jupiter
  • 4. Name the order of the planets
A) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
C) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
D) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
  • 5. Who is the father of Astronomy?
A) Hubble
B) Armstrong
C) Copernicus
D) Galileo
  • 6. What is the name of the telescope which orbits Earth?
A) Hubble
B) Armstrong
C) International Space Station
D) Galileo Probe
  • 7. Which planets are considered terrestrial
A) outer planets
B) gas planets
C) planets with rings
D) inner planets
  • 8. What causes day and night on Earth?
A) it tilted axis
B) its revolution
C) its rotation
D) its orbit around the sun
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The earth's orbit
B) The sun's gravity
C) The moon's orbit
D) The earth's rotation
  • 10. How long does it take for the moon to complete all of its phases?
A) 2 weeks
B) 1 week
C) 1 year
D) 29 days
  • 11. What determines length of year on a planet
A) the planet's size
B) revolution
C) rotation
D) its axis
  • 12. Who was the first person on the moon?
A) Buzz Aldren
B) John Glenn
C) Alan Shepard
D) Neil Armstrong
  • 13. Which measurement is the largest distance
A) 1 trillion miles
B) Light-year
C) AU
D) light-minute
  • 14. What causes a lunar eclipse?
A) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
B) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
C) The moon passes through it's own shadow.
D) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
  • 15. What causes a solar eclipse?
A) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
B) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
C) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
D) The sun passes through the earth's shadow.
  • 16. What is the name of our galaxy?
A) Andromeda
B) Milky Way
C) The Big Bang
D) One way
  • 17. What type of galaxy is ours?
A) Irregular
B) Regular
C) Barred Spiral
D) Elliptical
  • 18. What is the birthplace of stars
A) asteroid belt
B) constellation
C) Maine Medical Center
D) Nebula
  • 19. The Big Bang Theory explains.....
A) how the sound travels through space
B) the formation of the universe
C) how long it will take to travel in space
D) how stars explode
  • 20. The gravity of a body in space depends on its
A) moons
B) mass
C) atmosphere
D) size
  • 21. How far away is the sun from the earth?
A) 1 light year
B) 93 million miles
C) 93 billion miles
D) 93 thousand miles
  • 22. What causes the aurora borealis?
A) fireworks
B) the moon
C) solar wind
D) sunset
  • 23. Which planet has the shortest year?
A) Earth
B) Mercury
C) Mars
D) Moon
  • 24. Between which two planets are most of the asteroids located?
A) Jupiter and Saturn
B) Saturn and Uranus
C) Mars and Jupiter
D) Uranus and Neptune
  • 25. Which planet is farthest from earth?
A) Mars
B) jupiter
C) Neptune
D) uranus
  • 26. Why is Earth unique in the solar system?
A) It is the last inner planet
B) It has life
C) It has volcanoes
D) It has a moon
  • 27. What causes the comet's tail?
A) solar wind
B) the gravity of the sun
C) the asteroids
D) astronomers aren't sure
  • 28. What is unusual about most comets orbits?
A) It is very elliptical
B) They travel in the opposite direction around the sun
C) They are perfectly circular
D) The don't orbit they hit the sun.
  • 29. A meteorite can be seen
A) floating in space
B) on the earth's surface
C) Near Jupiter's rings
D) streaking through the atmosphere
  • 30. A meteor can be seen
A) on earth's surface
B) floating in space
C) streaking through earth's atmosphere
D) all of these answers
  • 31. A comet's tail points away from the sun because of
A) solar wind
B) sunlight
C) it does not point away from the sun
D) sublimation
  • 32. Earth's only natural satellite is
A) the sun
B) Hubble Telescope
C) the inner planets
D) the moon
  • 33. What is the postion of the sun, moon and earth for a new moon?
A) Sun, earth, moon
B) earth, sun, moon
C) Sun, moon, earth
D) moon, earth, sun
  • 34. What is it called as the moon goes from new moon to full moon?
A) crescent
B) gibbous
C) waning
D) waxing
  • 35. What is it called as the moon goes from full to new?
A) crescent
B) waning
C) waxing
D) gibbous
  • 36. How many stars in our galaxy
A) millions
B) infinite
C) one, the sun
D) billions
  • 37. A huge exploding star is called a
A) nebula
B) solar event
C) astro nova
D) supernova
  • 38. A solar flare creates
A) an aurora on earth
B) all of these answers
C) huge amount of energy
D) solar wind
  • 39. On which if these would you weigh the least?
A) Venus
B) Earth
C) moon
D) Mars
  • 40. During what phase of the moon does a lunar eclipse take place?
A) 1st quarter
B) Last Quarter
C) Full
D) New
  • 41. During what moon phase does a solar eclipse take place?
A) New
B) 1st quarter
C) Full
D) Last Quarter
  • 42. Why doesn't each eclipse happen every month?
A) It depends on what time of year it is
B) The moon's orbit is does not line up perfectly with the Earth
C) They do occur once a month you just can't seem them from all places on the earth
D) It depends on the earth's orbit
  • 43. True or False The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second
A) False
B) True
  • 44. The DISTANCE light travels in one year is called a
A) light-year
B) AU
C) 186,000 m/s
D) light mile
  • 45. Scientist believe that the Earth and our solar system are about how old?
A) 13.7 billion years
B) 4.5 billion years
C) 13.7 million years
D) 4.5 million year
  • 46. What measurement is used for distances within our solar system
A) light-seconds
B) meters
C) light-years
D) AU's
  • 47. What is the name of the aurora in the southern hemisphere
A) Aurora Antarctica
B) Aurora Australis
C) Holy Aurora
D) Aurora Borealis
  • 48. Why doesn't a comet far away from the sun have a tail?
A) It's too small
B) It's too cold
C) It's going too fast
D) It turns into rock
  • 49. Astronomers think the universe is about...
A) 14 billion years old
B) 4 billion years old
C) 1 billion years old
D) 1 million years old
  • 50. Astronomers think the universe is
A) None of the answers are correct
B) standing still
C) shrinking
D) expanding
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