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Astronomy 50
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(Αρχικός συντάκτης: 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) False
B) True
  • 3. Which planet is largest?
A) Saturn
B) Mercury
C) Uranus
D) Jupiter
  • 4. Name the order of the planets
A) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
C) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
D) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
  • 5. Who is the father of Astronomy?
A) Armstrong
B) Hubble
C) Copernicus
D) Galileo
  • 6. What is the name of the telescope which orbits Earth?
A) Galileo Probe
B) Hubble
C) International Space Station
D) Armstrong
  • 7. Which planets are considered terrestrial
A) gas planets
B) outer planets
C) inner planets
D) planets with rings
  • 8. What causes day and night on Earth?
A) it tilted axis
B) its rotation
C) its revolution
D) its orbit around the sun
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The earth's orbit
B) The moon's orbit
C) The earth's rotation
D) The sun's gravity
  • 10. How long does it take for the moon to complete all of its phases?
A) 2 weeks
B) 29 days
C) 1 year
D) 1 week
  • 11. What determines length of year on a planet
A) its axis
B) revolution
C) the planet's size
D) rotation
  • 12. Who was the first person on the moon?
A) Buzz Aldren
B) Alan Shepard
C) John Glenn
D) Neil Armstrong
  • 13. Which measurement is the largest distance
A) 1 trillion miles
B) AU
C) light-minute
D) Light-year
  • 14. What causes a lunar eclipse?
A) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
B) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
C) The moon passes through it's own shadow.
D) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
  • 15. What causes a solar eclipse?
A) The sun passes through the earth's shadow.
B) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
C) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
D) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
  • 16. What is the name of our galaxy?
A) Milky Way
B) The Big Bang
C) One way
D) Andromeda
  • 17. What type of galaxy is ours?
A) Regular
B) Irregular
C) Barred Spiral
D) Elliptical
  • 18. What is the birthplace of stars
A) Nebula
B) constellation
C) Maine Medical Center
D) asteroid belt
  • 19. The Big Bang Theory explains.....
A) how stars explode
B) the formation of the universe
C) how the sound travels through space
D) how long it will take to travel in space
  • 20. The gravity of a body in space depends on its
A) mass
B) atmosphere
C) moons
D) size
  • 21. How far away is the sun from the earth?
A) 93 million miles
B) 93 thousand miles
C) 93 billion miles
D) 1 light year
  • 22. What causes the aurora borealis?
A) solar wind
B) sunset
C) the moon
D) fireworks
  • 23. Which planet has the shortest year?
A) Mercury
B) Moon
C) Earth
D) Mars
  • 24. Between which two planets are most of the asteroids located?
A) Jupiter and Saturn
B) Uranus and Neptune
C) Mars and Jupiter
D) Saturn and Uranus
  • 25. Which planet is farthest from earth?
A) Mars
B) uranus
C) jupiter
D) Neptune
  • 26. Why is Earth unique in the solar system?
A) It has a moon
B) It has life
C) It has volcanoes
D) It is the last inner planet
  • 27. What causes the comet's tail?
A) astronomers aren't sure
B) the gravity of the sun
C) solar wind
D) the asteroids
  • 28. What is unusual about most comets orbits?
A) They travel in the opposite direction around the sun
B) The don't orbit they hit the sun.
C) It is very elliptical
D) They are perfectly circular
  • 29. A meteorite can be seen
A) on the earth's surface
B) Near Jupiter's rings
C) streaking through the atmosphere
D) floating in space
  • 30. A meteor can be seen
A) floating in space
B) streaking through earth's atmosphere
C) on earth's surface
D) all of these answers
  • 31. A comet's tail points away from the sun because of
A) sunlight
B) solar wind
C) it does not point away from the sun
D) sublimation
  • 32. Earth's only natural satellite is
A) Hubble Telescope
B) the sun
C) the inner planets
D) the moon
  • 33. What is the postion of the sun, moon and earth for a new moon?
A) moon, earth, sun
B) Sun, earth, moon
C) Sun, moon, earth
D) earth, sun, moon
  • 34. What is it called as the moon goes from new moon to full moon?
A) crescent
B) waxing
C) gibbous
D) waning
  • 35. What is it called as the moon goes from full to new?
A) gibbous
B) waning
C) waxing
D) crescent
  • 36. How many stars in our galaxy
A) one, the sun
B) millions
C) infinite
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) all of these answers
B) solar wind
C) an aurora on earth
D) huge amount of energy
  • 39. On which if these would you weigh the least?
A) Earth
B) moon
C) Venus
D) Mars
  • 40. During what phase of the moon does a lunar eclipse take place?
A) Full
B) 1st quarter
C) New
D) Last Quarter
  • 41. During what moon phase does a solar eclipse take place?
A) 1st quarter
B) Full
C) Last Quarter
D) New
  • 42. Why doesn't each eclipse happen every month?
A) It depends on what time of year it is
B) They do occur once a month you just can't seem them from all places on the earth
C) The moon's orbit is does not line up perfectly with 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) light mile
D) 186,000 m/s
  • 45. Scientist believe that the Earth and our solar system are about how old?
A) 4.5 billion years
B) 13.7 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) AU's
D) light-years
  • 47. What is the name of the aurora in the southern hemisphere
A) Aurora Australis
B) Holy Aurora
C) Aurora Antarctica
D) Aurora Borealis
  • 48. Why doesn't a comet far away from the sun have a tail?
A) It's too cold
B) It's too small
C) It turns into rock
D) It's going too fast
  • 49. Astronomers think the universe is about...
A) 4 billion years old
B) 1 billion years old
C) 14 billion years old
D) 1 million 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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