Astronomy Test
  • 1. What takes place in the center of the sun?
A) hydrogen fuses together
B) nuclear fusion
C) all of the answers are correct
D) helium is formed
  • 2. True or False The sun gives off all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
A) False
B) True
  • 3. Which planet is largest?
A) Jupiter
B) Mercury
C) Saturn
D) Uranus
  • 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, Neptune, Uranus
D) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
  • 5. What causes the seasons?
A) The tilt of the earth's axis
B) How close earth is to the sun
C) The earth's orbit
D) Both the tilt of the earth's axis and the earth's orbit
  • 6. What month does the 1st day of spring occur?
A) March
B) April
C) May
D) June
  • 7. What causes tides?
A) The earth's gravity
B) The moon's gravity
C) an earthquake
D) a tsunami
  • 8. Neap tides cause what to happen to tides?
A) They cause tsunamis
B) They are lower than usual
C) They are higher than usual
D) They have no effect on the height of tides
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The earth's rotation
B) The moon's orbit
C) The sun's gravity
D) The earth's orbit
  • 10. How long does it take for the moon to complete all of its phases?
A) 1 year
B) 29 days
C) 1 week
D) 2 weeks
  • 11. What is a blue moon?
A) when the moon appears blue in color
B) The second full moon of a month
C) when the man on the moon is sad
D) The first full moon of a month
  • 12. Who was the first person on the moon?
A) Alan Shepard
B) Neil Armstrong
C) Buzz Aldren
D) John Glenn
  • 13. How did the solar system form?
A) Both of the answers are correct.
B) From the gravitational attraction between molecules.
C) None of the answers are correct.
D) From a the gases left over from an exploding star.
  • 14. What causes a lunar eclipse?
A) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
B) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
C) The moon passes through it's own shadow.
D) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
  • 15. What causes a solar eclipse?
A) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
B) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
C) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
D) The sun passes through the earth's shadow.
  • 16. What is the name of our galaxy?
A) Milk and Juice
B) One way
C) Milky Way
D) Snickers
  • 17. What type of galaxy is ours?
A) Regular
B) Elliptical
C) Irregular
D) Spiral
  • 18. What is the hottest star?
A) blue
B) red
C) super giant
D) yellow
  • 19. The Big Bang Theory explains.....
A) how long it will take to travel in space
B) how the sound travels through space
C) the formation of the universe
D) how stars explode
  • 20. What type of star is the sun on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
A) white dwarf
B) super giant
C) red giant
D) main sequence
  • 21. How far away is the sun from the earth?
A) 93 billion miles
B) 1 light year
C) 93 million miles
D) 93 thousand miles
  • 22. What causes the aurora borealis?
A) northern lights
B) solar wind
C) the moon
D) sunset
  • 23. Which planet is smallest?
A) Earth
B) Moon
C) Mercury
D) Mars
  • 24. Between which two planets are most of the asteroids located?
A) Saturn and Uranus
B) Uranus and Neptune
C) Jupiter and Saturn
D) Mars and Jupiter
  • 25. Which planet is closest to Earth?
A) Venus
B) Moon
C) Mercury
D) Mars
  • 26. Why is Earth unique in the solar system?
A) It has volcanoes
B) It is the last inner planet
C) It has a moon
D) It has life
  • 27. What causes the comet's tail?
A) the asteroids
B) the gravity of the sun
C) astronomers aren't sure
D) solar wind
  • 28. What is unusual about most comets orbits?
A) It is highly 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. About what date do the seasons change?
A) the last day of the month
B) 15th
C) 21st
D) 1st
  • 30. What is the 1st day of Fall called?
A) Vernal Solstice
B) Autumnal Equinox
C) Autumnal Solstice
D) Vernal Equinox
  • 31. Spring tides are higher because....
A) The gravity of the sun.
B) The combined gravity of the moon and earth.
C) The combined gravity of the sun and moon
D) The combined gravity of all the planets and the moon
  • 32. Where do the world's highest tides occur?
A) Canada
B) United States
C) In the Indian Ocean
D) Sweden
  • 33. What is the postion of the sun, moon and earth for a new moon?
A) moon, earth, sun
B) Sun, moon, earth
C) Sun, earth, moon
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) waning
B) waxing
C) crescent
D) gibbous
  • 36. What year did the moon walk take place?
A) 1979
B) 1969
C) 1959
D) 1949
  • 37. What was the name of the first satellite in space?
A) Sputnik
B) Apollo 1
C) Cosmo 1
D) Explorer 1
  • 38. Who was the first man in space?
A) John Glenn
B) Alan Shepard
C) Yuri Gargarin
D) Neil Armstrong
  • 39. What is the famous quote from the first moon walk?
A) Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
B) "Houston, we have a problem."
C) "That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind."
D) "To go places and do things that have never been done before - that's what living is all about."
  • 40. During what phase of the moon does a lunar eclipse take place?
A) New
B) Last Quarter
C) 1st quarter
D) Full
  • 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) The moon doesn't revolve around the earth in the same plane as the earth
B) It depends on the earth's orbit
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. About how far away is the nearest star besides the sun?
A) 4 light years
B) 40,000,000 miles
C) 400 light years
D) 40 light years
  • 44. Which of the following is not a constellation of the zodiac?
A) Leo
B) Orion
C) Libra
D) Cancer
  • 45. Which is not a circumpolar constellation?
A) Neither of the answers are circumpolar
B) Ursa Minor
C) Both of the answers are circumpolar
D) Ursa Major
  • 46. Absolute magnitude is the brightness of a star...
A) from a standard distance
B) from 100,000 miles away
C) from 1 light year away
D) from right where it is
  • 47. Apparent magnitude is the brightness of a star....
A) from right where it is
B) from 1 light year away
C) from 100,000 miles away
D) from a standard distance
  • 48. What is the closest major galaxy to ours?
A) Andromeda
B) Hercules
C) Crab Nebula
D) Alpha Centuari
  • 49. Astronomers think the universe is about...
A) 1 million years old
B) 4 billion years old
C) 1 billion years old
D) 14 billion years old
  • 50. Astronomers think the universe is...
A) astronomers aren't sure if it is open or closed
B) None of the answers are correct
C) an open universe
D) a closed universe
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