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Astronomy 25
Contributed by: Trieu
(Original author: Collins)
  • 1. Billions of stars held together by gravity
A) constellation
B) super nova
C) solar system
D) galaxy
  • 2. All of space and everything in it
A) solar system
B) Universe
C) mega verse
D) galaxy
  • 3. Our sun looks bigger and brighter than other stars because
A) Its closest to earth
B) It's different than all the other stars
C) The other stars are in another galaxy
D) it's bigger than the other stars
  • 4. Name the order of the planets
A) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
C) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
D) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
  • 5. The theory that explains how the universe began
A) Big Daddy
B) Big Pop
C) Supernova
D) Big Bang
  • 6. A nebula is where
A) galaxies form
B) stars are formed
C) comets form
D) black holes form
  • 7. A planet closer to the sun has a shorter year than one father away because
A) its orbit is a shorter distance
B) because the inner planets are smaller
C) because the inner planets are made of rock
D) because it has no moon.
  • 8. Which planet is farthest from Earth?
A) Mercury
B) Venus
C) Uranus
D) Jupiter
  • 9. Comets are made of
A) real snow balls
B) rocks
C) frozen gas and dust
D) clouds
  • 10. Why is Earth unique in the solar system?
A) It has oxygen to breath
B) It has liquid water
C) It has life
D) All of these
  • 11. Why don't we have any pictures of our own galaxy?
A) It's too dark
B) We cannot get far enough away to take a picture of something so big.
C) It is moving too fast, so the picture would be blurry.
D) It only likes selfies.
  • 12. The time it takes a planet to rotate on its axis once is a _______ on that planet.
A) decade
B) year
C) month
D) day
  • 13. The major force that holds bodies in space together is
A) light-years
B) magnetism
C) gravity
D) orbit speed
  • 14. The motion of one body in space orbiting another body in space
A) retrograde
B) rotation
C) spinning
D) revolution
  • 15. Particles from the sun cause gases to glow in our atmosphere called
A) glow show
B) fireworks
C) auroras
D) magnetic storm
  • 16. The sun has more gravity than the planets because it ...
A) has the most mass
B) is hot
C) is bigger
D) it is made of gas
  • 17. A moon revolves around a
A) planet
B) nothing
C) the asteroid belt
D) a star
  • 18. Earth's rotation time is
A) 1 year
B) causes seasons
C) 24 hours
D) 365 days
  • 19. Large rock-like objects that are too small to be planets
A) exoplanets
B) meteorites
C) asteroids
D) comets
  • 20. The closer a planet is to the sun...
A) the faster it revolves around the sun
B) the faster it rotates
C) the longer the year
  • 21. The Earth's revolution time is
A) 24 days
B) a light year
C) 365 days
D) 24 hours
  • 22. Stars are made mostly of
A) hydrogen
B) carbon
C) methane
D) oxygen
  • 23. Earth's closet star is
A) the sun
B) the asteroid belt
C) Big Dipper
D) the moon
  • 24. The name of our galaxy is
A) Antares
B) Orion
C) Milky Way
D) Andromeda
  • 25. A planet revolves around a
A) moon
B) pickle
C) star
D) galaxy
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