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

Şununla oluşturuldu: That Quiz — tüm düzeydeki öğrenciler için matematik testi sitesi.