- 1. Which is a tool that astronomers use?
A) stethascope
B) optical telescope
C) moon
D) hammer
- 2. Which is a tool that astronomers use?
A) steth seeker
B) optical probe
C) radio telescope
D) porsle sight
- 3. A light-year is the distance that light travels in:
A) 1 year
B) 1 second
C) 1 month
D) 1 week
- 4. A radio teleschope collects what?
A) sound waves
B) radio waves
C) music
D) pictures of outerspace.
- 5. What is something doing when it circles another object? It is.....
A) orbiting
B) circling
C) rotating
D) day
- 6. What is a force that pulls objects to each other?
A) solar sytem
B) rotate
C) orbit
D) gravity
- 7. What is the time that it takes the Earth to circle the sun once?
A) year
B) day
- 8. What is the time that it takes the Earth to spin around once on its axis?
A) year
B) day
- 9. There are _________ planets in the solar system.
A) 10 (counting the sun)
B) eight
C) nine
D) 365 days
- 10. Every time the Earth orbits the sun, one _________ goes by
A) week
B) year
C) month
D) day
- 11. Which planet is closest to the sun?
A) Earth
B) Mercury
C) Pluto
D) Venus
- 12. Which planet is the largest in our Solar System?
A) Earth
B) Mercury
C) Sun
D) Jupiter
- 13. Which of these suns have the hottest surface temperature?
A) White Sun
B) Blue Sun
C) Yellow Sun
D) Red Sun
- 14. The most accepted theory for the creation of the Universe is called the:
A) Steady-State Theory
B) Einstein's Theory
C) Big Bang Theory
D) Space Theory
- 15. Which of these is not a type of Galaxy
A) Cube
B) Spiral
C) Elliptical
D) Irregular
- 16. A supernova is a large explosion of a:
A) Planet
B) Star
C) Moon
- 17. It takes about one ___________ for the moon to orbit the Earth.
A) 24 hours
B) 366 days during a leap year
C) week
D) month
- 18. The name of our Galaxy is called the:
A) Milk Bar
B) Milky Way
C) Nebula
D) Andromeda
- 19. All electromagnetic waves travel at:
A) The speed of sound.
B) The speed of a Jet.
C) The speed of light.
D) The speed of a bullet.
- 20. The most common landforms on the moon are__________.
A) craters
B) mountians
C) rocks
D) lakes
- 21. A Nebula is a large Interstellar:
A) Cloud
B) Neutron Star
C) Blackhole
D) Planet
- 22. The Ngarrindjeri people who occupy the Coorong and Murray Valley region of South Australia saw the Southern Cross as a:
A) Starfish
B) Prawn
C) Crab
D) Giant Stingray
- 23. What is the name given to stars that are 10 times larger than our own Sun?
A) Giant
B) Megagiants
C) Supergiants
- 24. Which chemical element is the most abundant in the Universe?
A) Hydrogen
B) Carbon
C) Iron
D) Oxygen
- 25. Stars appear very small in the night sky because they are:
A) 1 kilometre away
B) Microscopic Stars
C) Light-years away
D) 1000 kilometres away
- 26. Approximately how long does it take light from the Sun to reach your eyes?
A) 2 days
B) 5 years
C) 1 hour
D) 8 minutes
- 27. Saturday is named after which planet in our Solar System?
A) Saturn
B) Jupiter
C) Mercury
D) Mars
- 28. What do we call a region in spacetime with a strong gravitational effect that nothing—including light—can escape from inside it?
A) Red Giant
B) Galaxy
C) Blackhole
D) Nebula
- 29. Groups of Stars, in our Night Sky, that are shaped like Animals or familiar objects are called:
A) Galaxies
B) Constellations
C) Nebulas
D) Doodles
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