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Astronomy 50
Kontribusi oleh: Trieu
(Penulis asli: 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) True
B) False
  • 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, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
C) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
D) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
  • 5. Who is the father of Astronomy?
A) Hubble
B) Copernicus
C) Galileo
D) Armstrong
  • 6. What is the name of the telescope which orbits Earth?
A) Hubble
B) Armstrong
C) Galileo Probe
D) International Space Station
  • 7. Which planets are considered terrestrial
A) gas planets
B) outer planets
C) planets with rings
D) inner planets
  • 8. What causes day and night on Earth?
A) its revolution
B) its rotation
C) its orbit around the sun
D) it tilted axis
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The earth's orbit
B) The moon's orbit
C) The sun's gravity
D) The earth's rotation
  • 10. How long does it take for the moon to complete all of its phases?
A) 1 year
B) 29 days
C) 1 week
D) 2 weeks
  • 11. What determines length of year on a planet
A) its axis
B) rotation
C) revolution
D) the planet's size
  • 12. Who was the first person on the moon?
A) Buzz Aldren
B) John Glenn
C) Neil Armstrong
D) Alan Shepard
  • 13. Which measurement is the largest distance
A) AU
B) 1 trillion miles
C) light-minute
D) Light-year
  • 14. What causes a lunar eclipse?
A) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
B) The earth passes through the sun'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 earth passes through the sun's shadow.
B) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
C) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
D) The sun passes through the earth's shadow.
  • 16. What is the name of our galaxy?
A) One way
B) Milky Way
C) Andromeda
D) The Big Bang
  • 17. What type of galaxy is ours?
A) Barred Spiral
B) Elliptical
C) Irregular
D) Regular
  • 18. What is the birthplace of stars
A) constellation
B) asteroid belt
C) Nebula
D) Maine Medical Center
  • 19. The Big Bang Theory explains.....
A) how long it will take to travel in space
B) how stars explode
C) the formation of the universe
D) how the sound travels through space
  • 20. The gravity of a body in space depends on its
A) mass
B) size
C) moons
D) atmosphere
  • 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) the moon
B) solar wind
C) fireworks
D) sunset
  • 23. Which planet has the shortest year?
A) Moon
B) Mars
C) Mercury
D) Earth
  • 24. Between which two planets are most of the asteroids located?
A) Saturn and Uranus
B) Jupiter and Saturn
C) Mars and Jupiter
D) Uranus and Neptune
  • 25. Which planet is farthest from earth?
A) Neptune
B) uranus
C) jupiter
D) Mars
  • 26. Why is Earth unique in the solar system?
A) It has volcanoes
B) It is the last inner planet
C) It has life
D) It has a moon
  • 27. What causes the comet's tail?
A) solar wind
B) astronomers aren't sure
C) the asteroids
D) the gravity of the sun
  • 28. What is unusual about most comets orbits?
A) They travel in the opposite direction around the sun
B) It is very elliptical
C) They are perfectly circular
D) The don't orbit they hit the sun.
  • 29. A meteorite can be seen
A) on the earth's surface
B) floating in space
C) Near Jupiter's rings
D) streaking through the atmosphere
  • 30. A meteor can be seen
A) all of these answers
B) on earth's surface
C) floating in space
D) streaking through earth's atmosphere
  • 31. A comet's tail points away from the sun because of
A) solar wind
B) sublimation
C) it does not point away from the sun
D) sunlight
  • 32. Earth's only natural satellite is
A) the inner planets
B) the moon
C) the sun
D) Hubble Telescope
  • 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) waxing
B) waning
C) gibbous
D) crescent
  • 35. What is it called as the moon goes from full to new?
A) gibbous
B) waxing
C) crescent
D) waning
  • 36. How many stars in our galaxy
A) one, the sun
B) millions
C) billions
D) infinite
  • 37. A huge exploding star is called a
A) nebula
B) astro nova
C) solar event
D) supernova
  • 38. A solar flare creates
A) huge amount of energy
B) an aurora on earth
C) all of these answers
D) solar wind
  • 39. On which if these would you weigh the least?
A) Venus
B) Earth
C) Mars
D) moon
  • 40. During what phase of the moon does a lunar eclipse take place?
A) 1st quarter
B) New
C) Full
D) Last Quarter
  • 41. During what moon phase does a solar eclipse take place?
A) Last Quarter
B) 1st quarter
C) New
D) Full
  • 42. Why doesn't each eclipse happen every month?
A) It depends on what time of year it is
B) It depends on the earth's orbit
C) The moon's orbit is does not line up perfectly with the Earth
D) They do occur once a month you just can't seem them from all places on the earth
  • 43. True or False The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second
A) True
B) False
  • 44. The DISTANCE light travels in one year is called a
A) 186,000 m/s
B) AU
C) light mile
D) light-year
  • 45. Scientist believe that the Earth and our solar system are about how old?
A) 13.7 billion years
B) 4.5 million year
C) 13.7 million years
D) 4.5 billion years
  • 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) Aurora Antarctica
C) Holy Aurora
D) Aurora Borealis
  • 48. Why doesn't a comet far away from the sun have a tail?
A) It turns into rock
B) It's too small
C) It's going too fast
D) It's too cold
  • 49. Astronomers think the universe is about...
A) 1 billion years old
B) 4 billion years old
C) 1 million years old
D) 14 billion years old
  • 50. Astronomers think the universe is
A) standing still
B) expanding
C) None of the answers are correct
D) shrinking
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