- 1. Which is a tool that astronomers use?
A) stethaschopenhagen
B) hammer
C) moon
D) optical telescope
- 2. Which is a tool that astronomers use?
A) optical probe
B) steth seeker
C) radio telescope
D) porsle sight
- 3. The optical teleschope was invented about how long ago?
A) 200 years ago
B) 300 years ago
C) 400 years ago
D) 100 years ago
- 4. A radio teleschope collects what?
A) radio waves
B) pictures of outerspace.
C) music
D) sound waves
- 5. What is something doing when it circles another object? It is.....
A) orbiting
B) rotating
C) day
D) circling
- 6. What is a force that pulls objects to each other?
A) solar sytem
B) gravity
C) orbit
D) rotate
- 7. What is the time that it takes the Earth to circle the sun once?
A) year
B) day
- 8. What is the time that it takes the Earth to spin around once?
A) year
B) day
- 9. There are _________ planets in the solar system.
A) eight
B) 365 days
C) 10 (counting the sun)
D) nine
- 10. Every time the Earth orbits the sun, one _________ goes by
A) month
B) day
C) week
D) year
- 11. Which planet is closest to the sun?
A) Venus
B) Mercury
C) Earth
D) Pluto
- 12. Which planet is the biggest?
A) Sun
B) Earth
C) Mercury
D) Jupiter
- 14. The solar system includes the planets that orbit _______.
A) moons
B) once a year
C) the sun
D) nine planets
- 15. We first landed on the moon in.....
A) 2008
B) 1996
C) 1969
D) We haven't yet.
- 16. How many phases ore there in a moon?
A) 4
B) 10
C) 8
- 17. It takes about one ___________ for the moon to orbit the Earth.
A) month
B) week
C) 24 hours
D) 366 days during a leap year
- 18. When the moon looks like a thick eyelash it is called a _____________ moon.
A) crater
B) crescent
C) full
D) Gibbious
- 19. If Earth were the size of a basketball, the moon would be about the size of a ________________.
A) soccerball
B) balloon
C) tennis ball
D) pinpong ball
- 20. The most common landforms on the moon are__________.
A) rocks
B) craters
C) lakes
D) mountians
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