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