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) Mercury
B) Saturn
C) Uranus
D) Jupiter
  • 4. Name the order of the planets
A) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
C) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
D) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
  • 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) Armstrong
B) International Space Station
C) Galileo Probe
D) Hubble
  • 7. Which planets are considered terrestrial
A) outer planets
B) inner planets
C) planets with rings
D) gas planets
  • 8. What causes day and night on Earth?
A) its revolution
B) its rotation
C) it tilted axis
D) its orbit around the sun
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The moon's orbit
B) The sun's gravity
C) The earth's orbit
D) The earth's rotation
  • 10. How long does it take for the moon to complete all of its phases?
A) 1 week
B) 29 days
C) 2 weeks
D) 1 year
  • 11. What determines length of year on a planet
A) rotation
B) its axis
C) the planet's size
D) revolution
  • 12. Who was the first person on the moon?
A) Buzz Aldren
B) Neil Armstrong
C) Alan Shepard
D) John Glenn
  • 13. Which measurement is the largest distance
A) 1 trillion miles
B) light-minute
C) Light-year
D) AU
  • 14. What causes a lunar eclipse?
A) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
B) The moon passes through it's own shadow.
C) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
D) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
  • 15. What causes a solar eclipse?
A) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
B) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
C) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
D) The sun passes through the earth's shadow.
  • 16. What is the name of our galaxy?
A) One way
B) The Big Bang
C) Andromeda
D) Milky Way
  • 17. What type of galaxy is ours?
A) Elliptical
B) Barred Spiral
C) Regular
D) Irregular
  • 18. What is the birthplace of stars
A) Maine Medical Center
B) asteroid belt
C) Nebula
D) constellation
  • 19. The Big Bang Theory explains.....
A) how stars explode
B) how long it will take to travel in space
C) how the sound travels through space
D) the formation of the universe
  • 20. The gravity of a body in space depends on its
A) size
B) atmosphere
C) mass
D) moons
  • 21. How far away is the sun from the earth?
A) 93 thousand miles
B) 93 billion miles
C) 93 million miles
D) 1 light year
  • 22. What causes the aurora borealis?
A) the moon
B) sunset
C) fireworks
D) solar wind
  • 23. Which planet has the shortest year?
A) Moon
B) Mercury
C) Mars
D) Earth
  • 24. Between which two planets are most of the asteroids located?
A) Saturn and Uranus
B) Mars and Jupiter
C) Uranus and Neptune
D) Jupiter and Saturn
  • 25. Which planet is farthest from earth?
A) Neptune
B) uranus
C) Mars
D) jupiter
  • 26. Why is Earth unique in the solar system?
A) It has life
B) It is the last inner planet
C) It has volcanoes
D) It has a moon
  • 27. What causes the comet's tail?
A) the asteroids
B) the gravity of the sun
C) solar wind
D) astronomers aren't sure
  • 28. What is unusual about most comets orbits?
A) It is very elliptical
B) They are perfectly circular
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) floating in space
B) on the earth's surface
C) streaking through the atmosphere
D) Near Jupiter's rings
  • 30. A meteor can be seen
A) floating in space
B) on earth's surface
C) streaking through earth's atmosphere
D) all of these answers
  • 31. A comet's tail points away from the sun because of
A) sublimation
B) solar wind
C) it does not point away from the sun
D) sunlight
  • 32. Earth's only natural satellite is
A) the inner planets
B) Hubble Telescope
C) the sun
D) the moon
  • 33. What is the postion of the sun, moon and earth for a new moon?
A) Sun, earth, moon
B) Sun, moon, earth
C) moon, earth, sun
D) earth, sun, moon
  • 34. What is it called as the moon goes from new moon to full moon?
A) crescent
B) waning
C) gibbous
D) waxing
  • 35. What is it called as the moon goes from full to new?
A) gibbous
B) waning
C) crescent
D) waxing
  • 36. How many stars in our galaxy
A) one, the sun
B) millions
C) billions
D) infinite
  • 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) an aurora on earth
C) all of these answers
D) huge amount of energy
  • 39. On which if these would you weigh the least?
A) Earth
B) Venus
C) Mars
D) moon
  • 40. During what phase of the moon does a lunar eclipse take place?
A) Full
B) New
C) Last Quarter
D) 1st quarter
  • 41. During what moon phase does a solar eclipse take place?
A) Last Quarter
B) Full
C) 1st quarter
D) New
  • 42. Why doesn't each eclipse happen every month?
A) It depends on the earth's orbit
B) The moon's orbit is does not line up perfectly with the Earth
C) It depends on what time of year it is
D) They do occur once a month you just can't seem them from all places on 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) AU
C) light mile
D) 186,000 m/s
  • 45. Scientist believe that the Earth and our solar system are about how old?
A) 13.7 million years
B) 4.5 million year
C) 13.7 billion years
D) 4.5 billion years
  • 46. What measurement is used for distances within our solar system
A) light-years
B) AU's
C) meters
D) light-seconds
  • 47. What is the name of the aurora in the southern hemisphere
A) Holy Aurora
B) Aurora Australis
C) Aurora Borealis
D) Aurora Antarctica
  • 48. Why doesn't a comet far away from the sun have a tail?
A) It's too small
B) It's too cold
C) It turns into rock
D) It's going too fast
  • 49. Astronomers think the universe is about...
A) 1 million years old
B) 4 billion years old
C) 14 billion years old
D) 1 billion years old
  • 50. Astronomers think the universe is
A) expanding
B) standing still
C) shrinking
D) None of the answers are correct
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