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) Saturn
B) Jupiter
C) Mercury
D) Uranus
  • 4. Name the order of the planets
A) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, 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, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
  • 5. Who is the father of Astronomy?
A) Copernicus
B) Galileo
C) Hubble
D) Armstrong
  • 6. What is the name of the telescope which orbits Earth?
A) Galileo Probe
B) Armstrong
C) Hubble
D) International Space Station
  • 7. Which planets are considered terrestrial
A) outer planets
B) planets with rings
C) gas planets
D) inner planets
  • 8. What causes day and night on Earth?
A) it tilted axis
B) its orbit around the sun
C) its rotation
D) its revolution
  • 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) 1 year
B) 29 days
C) 1 week
D) 2 weeks
  • 11. What determines length of year on a planet
A) the planet's size
B) rotation
C) its axis
D) revolution
  • 12. Who was the first person on the moon?
A) Alan Shepard
B) John Glenn
C) Buzz Aldren
D) Neil Armstrong
  • 13. Which measurement is the largest distance
A) Light-year
B) light-minute
C) 1 trillion miles
D) AU
  • 14. What causes a lunar eclipse?
A) The moon passes through it's own shadow.
B) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
C) The earth passes through the sun'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) The Big Bang
B) Milky Way
C) Andromeda
D) One way
  • 17. What type of galaxy is ours?
A) Barred Spiral
B) Elliptical
C) Irregular
D) Regular
  • 18. What is the birthplace of stars
A) Maine Medical Center
B) Nebula
C) asteroid belt
D) constellation
  • 19. The Big Bang Theory explains.....
A) how stars explode
B) how the sound travels through space
C) the formation of the universe
D) how long it will take to travel in space
  • 20. The gravity of a body in space depends on its
A) size
B) mass
C) moons
D) atmosphere
  • 21. How far away is the sun from the earth?
A) 93 million miles
B) 93 thousand miles
C) 1 light year
D) 93 billion miles
  • 22. What causes the aurora borealis?
A) sunset
B) fireworks
C) solar wind
D) the moon
  • 23. Which planet has the shortest year?
A) Mars
B) Mercury
C) Moon
D) Earth
  • 24. Between which two planets are most of the asteroids located?
A) Mars and Jupiter
B) Uranus and Neptune
C) Jupiter and Saturn
D) Saturn and Uranus
  • 25. Which planet is farthest from earth?
A) Mars
B) Neptune
C) uranus
D) jupiter
  • 26. Why is Earth unique in the solar system?
A) It is the last inner planet
B) It has a moon
C) It has life
D) It has volcanoes
  • 27. What causes the comet's tail?
A) astronomers aren't sure
B) the asteroids
C) the gravity of the sun
D) solar wind
  • 28. What is unusual about most comets orbits?
A) They are perfectly circular
B) It is very elliptical
C) The don't orbit they hit the sun.
D) They travel in the opposite direction around 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) streaking through earth's atmosphere
D) floating in space
  • 31. A comet's tail points away from the sun because of
A) solar wind
B) it does not point away from the sun
C) sublimation
D) sunlight
  • 32. Earth's only natural satellite is
A) the moon
B) the sun
C) the inner planets
D) Hubble Telescope
  • 33. What is the postion of the sun, moon and earth for a new moon?
A) earth, sun, moon
B) Sun, moon, earth
C) moon, earth, sun
D) Sun, earth, moon
  • 34. What is it called as the moon goes from new moon to full moon?
A) crescent
B) waning
C) waxing
D) gibbous
  • 35. What is it called as the moon goes from full to new?
A) waxing
B) crescent
C) gibbous
D) waning
  • 36. How many stars in our galaxy
A) infinite
B) millions
C) billions
D) one, the sun
  • 37. A huge exploding star is called a
A) nebula
B) astro nova
C) supernova
D) solar event
  • 38. A solar flare creates
A) solar wind
B) all of these answers
C) huge amount of energy
D) an aurora on earth
  • 39. On which if these would you weigh the least?
A) moon
B) Mars
C) Venus
D) Earth
  • 40. During what phase of the moon does a lunar eclipse take place?
A) Full
B) 1st quarter
C) Last Quarter
D) New
  • 41. During what moon phase does a solar eclipse take place?
A) 1st quarter
B) Full
C) Last Quarter
D) New
  • 42. Why doesn't each eclipse happen every month?
A) It depends on the earth's orbit
B) It depends on what time of year it is
C) They do occur once a month you just can't seem them from all places on the earth
D) The moon's orbit is does not line up perfectly with the Earth
  • 43. True or False The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second
A) False
B) True
  • 44. The DISTANCE light travels in one year is called a
A) light-year
B) 186,000 m/s
C) AU
D) light mile
  • 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) Holy Aurora
B) Aurora Borealis
C) Aurora Australis
D) Aurora Antarctica
  • 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 too cold
D) It's going too fast
  • 49. Astronomers think the universe is about...
A) 4 billion years old
B) 1 million years old
C) 1 billion years old
D) 14 billion years old
  • 50. Astronomers think the universe is
A) standing still
B) None of the answers are correct
C) expanding
D) shrinking
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