Intro to Our Universe Quiz
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  • 1. The study of our universe is called___
A) geology
B) astronomy
C) astrology
D) geography
E) space
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  • 2. Our sun is actually a ________
A) planet
B) nova
C) supernova
D) galaxy
E) star
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  • 3. Everything that exists, exists in _________
A) an atom
B) our cells
C) the sun
D) water
E) the universe
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  • 4. Which of these is the largest?
A) galaxy
B) Sun
C) Earth
D) solar system
E) Jupiter
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  • 5. An idea that has lots of evidence to back it up but that can not be proven is a(n) ___
A) theory
B) hypothesis
C) educated guess
D) law
E) prediction
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  • 6. True or False.... A scientific theory can be proven
A) True
B) False
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  • 7. True or False... A scientific law can be proven
A) False
B) True
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  • 8. There are/is _____ Sun(s) in our galaxy
A) two
B) one
C) millions of
D) three
E) 100
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  • 9. There are _____ galaxies in our universe
A) 10
B) 7
C) 2
D) thousands of
E) 100
  • 10. Our galaxy is called _____
A) a super nova
B) Alpha Centauri
C) the Milky Way
D) the Solar System
E) none of these
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  • 11. To have gravity, an object must have ____
A) volume
B) mass
C) electricity
D) all of these
E) height
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  • 12. Your body exerts or has its own gravity.
A) False
B) True
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  • 13. Which of these would exert or have the most gravity?
A) an elephant
B) Earth
C) Jupiter
D) you
E) a fly
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  • 14. When one object attracts or pulls on another object
A) gravity
B) pressure
C) the universe
D) none of these
E) supernova
  • 15. Gravity makes objects ____ when they are falling
A) speed up
B) all of these
C) slow down
D) move at a constant speed
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  • 16. What keeps you on the ground?
A) volume
B) gravity
C) pressure
D) acceleration
E) density
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  • 17. Gravity keeps our Earth ____
A) in orbit around the Sun
B) from exploding
C) from shrinking
D) none of these
E) from growing 1000x larger
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  • 18. If you drop a penny and a baseball they fall ___
A) at different speeds
B) at the same speed
C) so that the baseball hits first
D) so that the penny hits first
E) none of these
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  • 19. Gravity can pull on clouds to affect weather.
A) Never
B) True
C) False
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  • 20. What makes our ocean tides rise and fall?
A) wind
B) Earth's gravity
C) the Moon's gravity
D) too much rain
E) tornadoes
  • 21. A container with no air is called or creates a ___
A) supernova
B) vacuum
C) sun
D) planet
E) nebula
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  • 22. E.M. stands for___
A) electrical movement
B) emergency medical
C) Earth's mass
D) electromagnetic
E) emit motion
  • 23. Which of these types of waves are NOT on the EM spectrum?
A) x-rays
B) TV broadcast waves
C) all of these
D) radio waves
E) ocean waves
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  • 24. What do scientists use to see the universe's galaxies?
A) telescopes
B) all of these
C) microscopes
D) none of these
E) binoculars
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  • 25. Radiation is always bad.
A) True
B) False
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  • 26. Matter that does not give off radiation that can be detected is _____
A) dark matter
B) a supernova
C) light matter
D) a nebula
E) a black hole
  • 27. Scientists believe that 90% of matter in the galaxies is ______
A) makes up planets
B) made of oxygen
C) dark matter
D) makes up our sun
E) light matter
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  • 28. Objects that heat and light the planets are called____
A) radiation
B) none of these
C) wavelengths
D) stars
E) suns
  • 29. Our Sun is small in comparison to other stars in the universe
A) our Sun is not a star
B) True
C) False
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  • 30. Stars are made of _____
A) liquid
B) plasma
C) metals
D) iron
E) solid
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  • 31. The "light" given off by stars comes from ___
A) metal reflections
B) constant nuclear reactions
C) iron
D) fire
E) oxygen
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  • 32. Stars are usually made of which 2 gases?
A) hydrogen and oxygen
B) helium and nitrogen
C) helium and hydrogen
D) iron and oxygen
E) oxygen and nitrogen
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  • 33. There are many different kinds of light in our universe.
A) True
B) False
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  • 34. Infrared, ultraviolet and x-rays are all forms of _____
A) liquids
B) solids
C) gases
D) light
E) supernovas
  • 35. A ball of gases that has many nuclear reactions is called_______
A) a galaxy
B) a planet
C) mass
D) gravity
E) a star
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  • 36. What color is our Sun?
A) invisible
B) red
C) orange
D) white
E) yellow
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  • 37. The color of a star depends on its _________
A) size only
B) surface temperature
C) gravity
D) distance from s planet
E) gases
  • 38. Higher temperatures create a__________star
A) blue
B) red
C) white
D) yellow
E) orange
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  • 39. Lower temperatures create a ______ star
A) orange
B) blue
C) white
D) red
E) yellow
  • 40. A star's luminosity means its _______
A) brightness
B) temperature
C) size
D) gas type
E) volume
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  • 41. A star's radius means its ________
A) density
B) size
C) temperature
D) orbit
E) color
  • 42. Our Sun has a _____ temperature compared to others in the universe
A) hotter
B) none of these
C) below zero
D) cooler
E) medium
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  • 43. Like other organisms, stars have a _________
A) carbon cycle
B) nitrogen cycle
C) life cycle
D) water cycle
E) all of these
  • 44. Stars are born from huge clouds of _____
A) water and dust
B) hydrogen and water
C) gas and dust
D) oxygen
E) nitrogen
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  • 45. The "beginning" of a star's life is called a _____
A) nebula
B) radiation wave
C) white dwarf
D) supernova
E) gamma ray
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  • 46. A nebula that condenses and gets smaller is called a _____
A) galaxy
B) giant nebula
C) protostar
D) solar sytem
E) supernova
  • 47. The prefix "proto" means ____
A) middle of a cycle
B) none of these
C) early or before
D) older or after
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  • 48. Right at the end of the protostar phase, a star becomes _____
A) all of these
B) more dense
C) explosive
D) a solid
E) less dense
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  • 49. The star's heavy elements move___
A) in straight lines
B) out into the atmosphere
C) to the center
D) in horizontal lines
  • 50. After a star's main sequence, it becomes a _______
A) white dwarf
B) supernova
C) green star
D) red giant
E) blue star
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  • 51. As a star cools it starts to ____
A) all of these
B) grow
C) shrink
D) disappear
  • 52. As a star begins to die, it becomes a _________
A) blue dwarf
B) white dwarf
C) red dwarf
D) yellow giant
E) red giant
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  • 53. What is a super nova?
A) when 2 stars collide
B) when a galaxy explodes
C) when a star's reactions stop and it explodes
D) when a star's reactions speed up and it explodes
E) when 2 planets collide
  • 54. When a star has little or no fuel left, it is in its ______ stage of life
A) first
B) middle
C) final
D) 10th
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  • 55. A star in its final stage becomes a ____
A) blue planet
B) yellow dwarf
C) white dwarf
D) red giant
E) none of these
  • 56. A black hole has so much gravity that ______
A) light can escape easily
B) even light can not get out
C) it explodes into a supernova
D) all of these
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  • 57. No object can escape the gravity of a black hole.
A) True
B) False
solarsystem
  • 58. A huge amount of mass in a very small space produces a ___
A) black hole
B) supernova
C) galaxy
D) solar system
E) universe
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