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Astronomy Test
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  • 1. What takes place in the center of the sun?
A) all of the answers are correct
B) helium is formed
C) hydrogen fuses together
D) nuclear fusion
  • 2. True or False The sun gives off all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
C) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
D) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
  • 5. What causes the seasons?
A) Both the tilt of the earth's axis and the earth's orbit
B) How close earth is to the sun
C) The tilt of the earth's axis
D) The earth's orbit
  • 6. What month does the 1st day of spring occur?
A) March
B) April
C) June
D) May
  • 7. What causes tides?
A) an earthquake
B) The earth's gravity
C) a tsunami
D) The moon's gravity
  • 8. Neap tides cause what to happen to tides?
A) They are higher than usual
B) They are lower than usual
C) They cause tsunamis
D) They have no effect on the height of tides
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The moon's orbit
B) The sun's gravity
C) The earth'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 is a blue moon?
A) The first full moon of a month
B) when the moon appears blue in color
C) when the man on the moon is sad
D) The second full moon of a month
  • 12. Who was the first person on the moon?
A) Alan Shepard
B) John Glenn
C) Neil Armstrong
D) Buzz Aldren
  • 13. How did the solar system form?
A) None of the answers are correct.
B) Both of the answers are correct.
C) From a the gases left over from an exploding star.
D) From the gravitational attraction between molecules.
  • 14. What causes a lunar eclipse?
A) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
B) The moon passes through it's own shadow.
C) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
D) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
  • 15. What causes a solar eclipse?
A) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
B) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
C) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
D) The sun passes through the earth's shadow.
  • 16. What is the name of our galaxy?
A) Milky Way
B) One way
C) Snickers
D) Milk and Juice
  • 17. What type of galaxy is ours?
A) Irregular
B) Spiral
C) Elliptical
D) Regular
  • 18. What is the hottest star?
A) red
B) blue
C) yellow
D) super giant
  • 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. What type of star is the sun on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
A) red giant
B) main sequence
C) super giant
D) white dwarf
  • 21. How far away is the sun from the earth?
A) 93 thousand miles
B) 1 light year
C) 93 million miles
D) 93 billion miles
  • 22. What causes the aurora borealis?
A) northern lights
B) solar wind
C) the moon
D) sunset
  • 23. Which planet is smallest?
A) Earth
B) Moon
C) Mars
D) Mercury
  • 24. Between which two planets are most of the asteroids located?
A) Jupiter and Saturn
B) Saturn and Uranus
C) Uranus and Neptune
D) Mars and Jupiter
  • 25. Which planet is closest to Earth?
A) Mars
B) Mercury
C) Moon
D) Venus
  • 26. Why is Earth unique in the solar system?
A) It is the last inner planet
B) It has a moon
C) It has volcanoes
D) It has life
  • 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 highly elliptical
B) They are perfectly circular
C) The don't orbit they hit the sun.
D) They travel in the opposite direction around the sun
  • 29. About what date do the seasons change?
A) the last day of the month
B) 1st
C) 21st
D) 15th
  • 30. What is the 1st day of Fall called?
A) Vernal Equinox
B) Autumnal Solstice
C) Autumnal Equinox
D) Vernal Solstice
  • 31. Spring tides are higher because....
A) The gravity of the sun.
B) The combined gravity of the sun and moon
C) The combined gravity of the moon and earth.
D) The combined gravity of all the planets and the moon
  • 32. Where do the world's highest tides occur?
A) United States
B) Sweden
C) In the Indian Ocean
D) Canada
  • 33. What is the postion of the sun, moon and earth for a new moon?
A) Sun, moon, earth
B) Sun, earth, moon
C) moon, earth, sun
D) earth, sun, moon
  • 34. What is it called as the moon goes from new moon to full moon?
A) gibbous
B) waxing
C) crescent
D) waning
  • 35. What is it called as the moon goes from full to new?
A) crescent
B) waxing
C) waning
D) gibbous
  • 36. What year did the moon walk take place?
A) 1969
B) 1979
C) 1949
D) 1959
  • 37. What was the name of the first satellite in space?
A) Sputnik
B) Apollo 1
C) Cosmo 1
D) Explorer 1
  • 38. Who was the first man in space?
A) Alan Shepard
B) John Glenn
C) Yuri Gargarin
D) Neil Armstrong
  • 39. What is the famous quote from the first moon walk?
A) Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
B) "That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind."
C) "Houston, we have a problem."
D) "To go places and do things that have never been done before - that's what living is all about."
  • 40. During what phase of the moon does a lunar eclipse take place?
A) 1st quarter
B) Last Quarter
C) New
D) Full
  • 41. During what moon phase does a solar eclipse take place?
A) New
B) Full
C) Last Quarter
D) 1st quarter
  • 42. Why doesn't each eclipse happen every month?
A) They do occur once a month you just can't seem them from all places on the earth
B) It depends on the earth's orbit
C) It depends on what time of year it is
D) The moon doesn't revolve around the earth in the same plane as the earth
  • 43. About how far away is the nearest star besides the sun?
A) 4 light years
B) 40,000,000 miles
C) 40 light years
D) 400 light years
  • 44. Which of the following is not a constellation of the zodiac?
A) Leo
B) Libra
C) Cancer
D) Orion
  • 45. Which is not a circumpolar constellation?
A) Neither of the answers are circumpolar
B) Both of the answers are circumpolar
C) Ursa Major
D) Ursa Minor
  • 46. Absolute magnitude is the brightness of a star...
A) from right where it is
B) from 100,000 miles away
C) from a standard distance
D) from 1 light year away
  • 47. Apparent magnitude is the brightness of a star....
A) from a standard distance
B) from right where it is
C) from 1 light year away
D) from 100,000 miles away
  • 48. What is the closest major galaxy to ours?
A) Crab Nebula
B) Hercules
C) Alpha Centuari
D) Andromeda
  • 49. Astronomers think the universe is about...
A) 14 billion years old
B) 1 million years old
C) 1 billion years old
D) 4 billion years old
  • 50. Astronomers think the universe is...
A) a closed universe
B) None of the answers are correct
C) astronomers aren't sure if it is open or closed
D) an open universe
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