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