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Astronomy Test
Contribué par: Collins
  • 1. What takes place in the center of the sun?
A) nuclear fusion
B) all of the answers are correct
C) helium is formed
D) hydrogen fuses together
  • 2. True or False The sun gives off all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
A) False
B) True
  • 3. Which planet is largest?
A) Saturn
B) Mercury
C) Jupiter
D) Uranus
  • 4. Name the order of the planets
A) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
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, Neptune, Uranus
  • 5. What causes the seasons?
A) Both the tilt of the earth's axis and the earth's orbit
B) The earth's orbit
C) How close earth is to the sun
D) The tilt of the earth's axis
  • 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) a tsunami
C) The moon's gravity
D) The earth's gravity
  • 8. Neap tides cause what to happen to tides?
A) They have no effect on the height of tides
B) They are lower than usual
C) They are higher than usual
D) They cause tsunamis
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The moon's orbit
B) The sun's gravity
C) The earth's rotation
D) The earth's orbit
  • 10. How long does it take for the moon to complete all of its phases?
A) 1 year
B) 2 weeks
C) 29 days
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) From a the gases left over from an exploding star.
B) None of the answers are correct.
C) Both of the answers are correct.
D) From the gravitational attraction between molecules.
  • 14. What causes a lunar eclipse?
A) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
B) The moon passes through it's own shadow.
C) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
D) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
  • 15. What causes a solar eclipse?
A) The sun passes through the earth's shadow.
B) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
C) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
D) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
  • 16. What is the name of our galaxy?
A) Snickers
B) Milk and Juice
C) One way
D) Milky Way
  • 17. What type of galaxy is ours?
A) Irregular
B) Spiral
C) Regular
D) Elliptical
  • 18. What is the hottest star?
A) yellow
B) super giant
C) blue
D) red
  • 19. The Big Bang Theory explains.....
A) how stars explode
B) how long it will take to travel in space
C) the formation of the universe
D) how the sound travels through space
  • 20. What type of star is the sun on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
A) white dwarf
B) main sequence
C) red giant
D) super giant
  • 21. How far away is the sun from the earth?
A) 93 thousand miles
B) 1 light year
C) 93 billion miles
D) 93 million miles
  • 22. What causes the aurora borealis?
A) sunset
B) solar wind
C) northern lights
D) the moon
  • 23. Which planet is smallest?
A) Mars
B) Mercury
C) Moon
D) Earth
  • 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) Venus
C) Moon
D) Mercury
  • 26. Why is Earth unique in the solar system?
A) It has life
B) It has volcanoes
C) It has a moon
D) It is the last inner planet
  • 27. What causes the comet's tail?
A) solar wind
B) the asteroids
C) astronomers aren't sure
D) the gravity of the sun
  • 28. What is unusual about most comets orbits?
A) They are perfectly circular
B) It is highly elliptical
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) 1st
B) 21st
C) 15th
D) the last day of the month
  • 30. What is the 1st day of Fall called?
A) Autumnal Equinox
B) Vernal Equinox
C) Vernal Solstice
D) Autumnal Solstice
  • 31. Spring tides are higher because....
A) The combined gravity of the moon and earth.
B) The gravity of the sun.
C) The combined gravity of the sun and moon
D) The combined gravity of all the planets and the moon
  • 32. Where do the world's highest tides occur?
A) United States
B) In the Indian Ocean
C) Canada
D) Sweden
  • 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) crescent
B) waxing
C) gibbous
D) waning
  • 35. What is it called as the moon goes from full to new?
A) gibbous
B) waxing
C) crescent
D) waning
  • 36. What year did the moon walk take place?
A) 1949
B) 1959
C) 1969
D) 1979
  • 37. What was the name of the first satellite in space?
A) Explorer 1
B) Cosmo 1
C) Sputnik
D) Apollo 1
  • 38. Who was the first man in space?
A) Alan Shepard
B) Yuri Gargarin
C) Neil Armstrong
D) John Glenn
  • 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) "To go places and do things that have never been done before - that's what living is all about."
D) "Houston, we have a problem."
  • 40. During what phase of the moon does a lunar eclipse take place?
A) Last Quarter
B) Full
C) New
D) 1st quarter
  • 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 what time of year it is
C) It depends on the earth's orbit
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) 400 light years
B) 4 light years
C) 40,000,000 miles
D) 40 light years
  • 44. Which of the following is not a constellation of the zodiac?
A) Libra
B) Orion
C) Leo
D) Cancer
  • 45. Which is not a circumpolar constellation?
A) Ursa Major
B) Both of the answers are circumpolar
C) Ursa Minor
D) Neither of the answers are circumpolar
  • 46. Absolute magnitude is the brightness of a star...
A) from right where it is
B) from 100,000 miles away
C) from 1 light year away
D) from a standard distance
  • 47. Apparent magnitude is the brightness of a star....
A) from 1 light year away
B) from 100,000 miles away
C) from right where it is
D) from a standard distance
  • 48. What is the closest major galaxy to ours?
A) Andromeda
B) Hercules
C) Alpha Centuari
D) Crab Nebula
  • 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) a closed universe
B) astronomers aren't sure if it is open or closed
C) an open universe
D) None of the answers are correct
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