Astronomy 50
  • 1. True of False The Sun is the largest star in our galaxy
A) False
B) True
  • 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) Uranus
B) Saturn
C) Jupiter
D) Mercury
  • 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. Who is the father of Astronomy?
A) Armstrong
B) Copernicus
C) Galileo
D) Hubble
  • 6. What is the name of the telescope which orbits Earth?
A) Galileo Probe
B) International Space Station
C) Armstrong
D) Hubble
  • 7. Which planets are considered terrestrial
A) gas planets
B) planets with rings
C) outer planets
D) inner planets
  • 8. What causes day and night on Earth?
A) its rotation
B) it tilted axis
C) its orbit around the sun
D) its revolution
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The earth's rotation
B) The earth's orbit
C) The sun's gravity
D) The moon'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 determines length of year on a planet
A) rotation
B) revolution
C) the planet's size
D) its axis
  • 12. Who was the first person on the moon?
A) John Glenn
B) Alan Shepard
C) Buzz Aldren
D) Neil Armstrong
  • 13. Which measurement is the largest distance
A) 1 trillion miles
B) AU
C) light-minute
D) Light-year
  • 14. What causes a lunar eclipse?
A) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
B) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
C) The moon passes through it's own 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) Andromeda
B) Milky Way
C) One way
D) The Big Bang
  • 17. What type of galaxy is ours?
A) Irregular
B) Barred Spiral
C) Elliptical
D) Regular
  • 18. What is the birthplace of stars
A) constellation
B) Nebula
C) Maine Medical Center
D) asteroid belt
  • 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. 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) 1 light year
B) 93 thousand miles
C) 93 million miles
D) 93 billion miles
  • 22. What causes the aurora borealis?
A) the moon
B) fireworks
C) sunset
D) solar wind
  • 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) Uranus and Neptune
C) Mars and Jupiter
D) Jupiter and Saturn
  • 25. Which planet is farthest from earth?
A) jupiter
B) uranus
C) Mars
D) Neptune
  • 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) astronomers aren't sure
B) the gravity of the sun
C) solar wind
D) the asteroids
  • 28. What is unusual about most comets orbits?
A) It is very elliptical
B) The don't orbit they hit the sun.
C) They are perfectly circular
D) They travel in the opposite direction around the sun
  • 29. A meteorite can be seen
A) streaking through the atmosphere
B) floating in space
C) Near Jupiter's rings
D) on the earth's surface
  • 30. A meteor can be seen
A) floating in space
B) all of these answers
C) on earth's surface
D) streaking through earth's atmosphere
  • 31. A comet's tail points away from the sun because of
A) solar wind
B) sunlight
C) sublimation
D) it does not point away from the sun
  • 32. Earth's only natural satellite is
A) the sun
B) the moon
C) Hubble Telescope
D) the inner planets
  • 33. What is the postion of the sun, moon and earth for a new moon?
A) moon, earth, sun
B) earth, sun, moon
C) Sun, earth, moon
D) Sun, moon, earth
  • 34. What is it called as the moon goes from new moon to full moon?
A) waxing
B) crescent
C) gibbous
D) waning
  • 35. What is it called as the moon goes from full to new?
A) crescent
B) waxing
C) waning
D) gibbous
  • 36. How many stars in our galaxy
A) one, the sun
B) infinite
C) millions
D) billions
  • 37. A huge exploding star is called a
A) nebula
B) supernova
C) astro nova
D) solar event
  • 38. A solar flare creates
A) all of these answers
B) an aurora on earth
C) huge amount of energy
D) solar wind
  • 39. On which if these would you weigh the least?
A) Earth
B) moon
C) Venus
D) Mars
  • 40. During what phase of the moon does a lunar eclipse take place?
A) 1st quarter
B) Full
C) Last Quarter
D) New
  • 41. During what moon phase does a solar eclipse take place?
A) New
B) 1st quarter
C) Last Quarter
D) Full
  • 42. Why doesn't each eclipse happen every month?
A) It depends on the earth's orbit
B) They do occur once a month you just can't seem them from all places on the earth
C) The moon's orbit is does not line up perfectly with the Earth
D) It depends on what time of year it is
  • 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) AU
B) 186,000 m/s
C) light mile
D) light-year
  • 45. Scientist believe that the Earth and our solar system are about how old?
A) 4.5 billion years
B) 4.5 million year
C) 13.7 million years
D) 13.7 billion years
  • 46. What measurement is used for distances within our solar system
A) light-seconds
B) meters
C) light-years
D) AU's
  • 47. What is the name of the aurora in the southern hemisphere
A) Aurora Borealis
B) Aurora Antarctica
C) Aurora Australis
D) Holy Aurora
  • 48. Why doesn't a comet far away from the sun have a tail?
A) It's going too fast
B) It's too cold
C) It's too small
D) It turns into rock
  • 49. Astronomers think the universe is about...
A) 14 billion years old
B) 1 million years old
C) 4 billion years old
D) 1 billion years old
  • 50. Astronomers think the universe is
A) standing still
B) None of the answers are correct
C) shrinking
D) expanding
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