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