Astronomy Test
  • 1. What takes place in the center of the sun?
A) all of the answers are correct
B) helium is formed
C) nuclear fusion
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) Jupiter
C) Uranus
D) Mercury
  • 4. Name the order of the planets
A) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
C) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
D) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
  • 5. What causes the seasons?
A) The tilt of the earth's axis
B) Both the tilt of the earth's axis and the earth's orbit
C) The earth's orbit
D) How close earth is to the sun
  • 6. What month does the 1st day of spring occur?
A) April
B) June
C) March
D) May
  • 7. What causes tides?
A) The moon's gravity
B) an earthquake
C) The earth's gravity
D) a tsunami
  • 8. Neap tides cause what to happen to tides?
A) They cause tsunamis
B) They have no effect on the height of tides
C) They are higher than usual
D) They are lower than usual
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The earth's rotation
B) The sun's gravity
C) The moon's orbit
D) The earth's orbit
  • 10. How long does it take for the moon to complete all of its phases?
A) 29 days
B) 2 weeks
C) 1 week
D) 1 year
  • 11. What is a blue moon?
A) The first full moon of a month
B) when the moon appears blue in color
C) The second full moon of a month
D) when the man on the moon is sad
  • 12. Who was the first person on the moon?
A) John Glenn
B) Buzz Aldren
C) Neil Armstrong
D) Alan Shepard
  • 13. How did the solar system form?
A) Both of the answers are correct.
B) From the gravitational attraction between molecules.
C) From a the gases left over from an exploding star.
D) None of the answers are correct.
  • 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 moon passes through the earth's shadow.
D) The earth passes through the sun'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) Milk and Juice
B) Snickers
C) Milky Way
D) One way
  • 17. What type of galaxy is ours?
A) Elliptical
B) Spiral
C) Regular
D) Irregular
  • 18. What is the hottest star?
A) yellow
B) red
C) super giant
D) blue
  • 19. The Big Bang Theory explains.....
A) the formation of the universe
B) how the sound travels through space
C) how stars explode
D) how long it will take to travel in space
  • 20. What type of star is the sun on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
A) super giant
B) white dwarf
C) red giant
D) main sequence
  • 21. How far away is the sun from the earth?
A) 93 billion miles
B) 93 thousand miles
C) 93 million miles
D) 1 light year
  • 22. What causes the aurora borealis?
A) solar wind
B) sunset
C) northern lights
D) the moon
  • 23. Which planet is smallest?
A) Moon
B) Mars
C) Earth
D) Mercury
  • 24. Between which two planets are most of the asteroids located?
A) Saturn and Uranus
B) Uranus and Neptune
C) Mars and Jupiter
D) Jupiter and Saturn
  • 25. Which planet is closest to Earth?
A) Moon
B) Venus
C) Mercury
D) Mars
  • 26. Why is Earth unique in the solar system?
A) It has life
B) It is the last inner planet
C) It has a moon
D) It has volcanoes
  • 27. What causes the comet's tail?
A) the asteroids
B) solar wind
C) astronomers aren't sure
D) the gravity of the sun
  • 28. What is unusual about most comets orbits?
A) It is highly elliptical
B) The don't orbit they hit the sun.
C) They travel in the opposite direction around the sun
D) They are perfectly circular
  • 29. About what date do the seasons change?
A) 15th
B) the last day of the month
C) 21st
D) 1st
  • 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 combined gravity of all the planets and the moon
B) The combined gravity of the sun and moon
C) The gravity of the sun.
D) The combined gravity of the moon and earth.
  • 32. Where do the world's highest tides occur?
A) United States
B) Canada
C) In the Indian Ocean
D) Sweden
  • 33. What is the postion of the sun, moon and earth for a new moon?
A) Sun, earth, moon
B) earth, sun, moon
C) Sun, moon, earth
D) moon, earth, sun
  • 34. What is it called as the moon goes from new moon to full moon?
A) waxing
B) gibbous
C) crescent
D) waning
  • 35. What is it called as the moon goes from full to new?
A) waning
B) crescent
C) waxing
D) gibbous
  • 36. What year did the moon walk take place?
A) 1969
B) 1949
C) 1979
D) 1959
  • 37. What was the name of the first satellite in space?
A) Sputnik
B) Explorer 1
C) Cosmo 1
D) Apollo 1
  • 38. Who was the first man in space?
A) John Glenn
B) Yuri Gargarin
C) Neil Armstrong
D) Alan Shepard
  • 39. What is the famous quote from the first moon walk?
A) "That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind."
B) "Houston, we have a problem."
C) Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
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) Full
B) 1st quarter
C) New
D) Last Quarter
  • 41. During what moon phase does a solar eclipse take place?
A) Last Quarter
B) Full
C) 1st quarter
D) New
  • 42. Why doesn't each eclipse happen every month?
A) The moon doesn't revolve around the earth in the same plane as the earth
B) They do occur once a month you just can't seem them from all places on the earth
C) It depends on the earth's orbit
D) It depends on what time of year it is
  • 43. About how far away is the nearest star besides the sun?
A) 40,000,000 miles
B) 40 light years
C) 400 light years
D) 4 light years
  • 44. Which of the following is not a constellation of the zodiac?
A) Cancer
B) Libra
C) Leo
D) Orion
  • 45. Which is not a circumpolar constellation?
A) Neither of the answers are circumpolar
B) Ursa Major
C) Both of the answers are circumpolar
D) Ursa Minor
  • 46. Absolute magnitude is the brightness of a star...
A) from right where it is
B) from a standard distance
C) from 100,000 miles away
D) from 1 light year away
  • 47. Apparent magnitude is the brightness of a star....
A) from a standard distance
B) from 100,000 miles away
C) from right where it is
D) from 1 light year away
  • 48. What is the closest major galaxy to ours?
A) Alpha Centuari
B) Andromeda
C) Crab Nebula
D) Hercules
  • 49. Astronomers think the universe is about...
A) 1 million years old
B) 14 billion years old
C) 1 billion years old
D) 4 billion years old
  • 50. Astronomers think the universe is...
A) an open universe
B) a closed universe
C) astronomers aren't sure if it is open or closed
D) None of the answers are correct
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