Astronomy Test
  • 1. What takes place in the center of the sun?
A) nuclear fusion
B) helium is formed
C) all of the answers are correct
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) Saturn
B) Uranus
C) Mercury
D) Jupiter
  • 4. Name the order of the planets
A) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
C) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
D) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
  • 5. What causes the seasons?
A) The tilt of the earth's axis
B) Both the tilt of the earth's axis and the earth's orbit
C) The earth's orbit
D) How close earth is to the sun
  • 6. What month does the 1st day of spring occur?
A) March
B) June
C) May
D) April
  • 7. What causes tides?
A) The moon's gravity
B) The earth's gravity
C) an earthquake
D) a tsunami
  • 8. Neap tides cause what to happen to tides?
A) They cause tsunamis
B) They have no effect on the height of tides
C) They are higher than usual
D) They are lower than usual
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The earth's orbit
B) The earth's rotation
C) The moon's orbit
D) The sun's gravity
  • 10. How long does it take for the moon to complete all of its phases?
A) 1 week
B) 1 year
C) 29 days
D) 2 weeks
  • 11. What is a blue moon?
A) The first full moon of a month
B) The second full moon of a month
C) when the man on the moon is sad
D) when the moon appears blue in color
  • 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) None of the answers are correct.
C) Both of the answers are correct.
D) From the gravitational attraction between molecules.
  • 14. What causes a lunar eclipse?
A) The moon passes through it's own shadow.
B) The moon passes through the earth's 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 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) Milky Way
B) Snickers
C) One way
D) Milk and Juice
  • 17. What type of galaxy is ours?
A) Elliptical
B) Regular
C) Irregular
D) Spiral
  • 18. What is the hottest star?
A) blue
B) super giant
C) yellow
D) red
  • 19. The Big Bang Theory explains.....
A) the formation of the universe
B) how long it will take to travel in space
C) how the sound travels through space
D) how stars explode
  • 20. What type of star is the sun on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
A) white dwarf
B) red giant
C) main sequence
D) super giant
  • 21. How far away is the sun from the earth?
A) 93 thousand miles
B) 93 million miles
C) 1 light year
D) 93 billion miles
  • 22. What causes the aurora borealis?
A) sunset
B) northern lights
C) solar wind
D) the moon
  • 23. Which planet is smallest?
A) Earth
B) Moon
C) Mars
D) Mercury
  • 24. Between which two planets are most of the asteroids located?
A) Jupiter and Saturn
B) Uranus and Neptune
C) Mars and Jupiter
D) Saturn and Uranus
  • 25. Which planet is closest to Earth?
A) Moon
B) Venus
C) Mars
D) Mercury
  • 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 asteroids
B) solar wind
C) astronomers aren't sure
D) the gravity of the sun
  • 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 highly elliptical
  • 29. About what date do the seasons change?
A) the last day of the month
B) 1st
C) 21st
D) 15th
  • 30. What is the 1st day of Fall called?
A) Vernal Equinox
B) Vernal Solstice
C) Autumnal Equinox
D) Autumnal 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 combined gravity of the moon and earth.
D) The gravity of the sun.
  • 32. Where do the world's highest tides occur?
A) In the Indian Ocean
B) United States
C) Sweden
D) Canada
  • 33. What is the postion of the sun, moon and earth for a new moon?
A) earth, sun, moon
B) Sun, earth, moon
C) Sun, moon, earth
D) moon, earth, sun
  • 34. What is it called as the moon goes from new moon to full moon?
A) waning
B) gibbous
C) crescent
D) waxing
  • 35. What is it called as the moon goes from full to new?
A) waning
B) crescent
C) gibbous
D) waxing
  • 36. What year did the moon walk take place?
A) 1969
B) 1959
C) 1949
D) 1979
  • 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) Neil Armstrong
B) Alan Shepard
C) John Glenn
D) Yuri Gargarin
  • 39. What is the famous quote from the first moon walk?
A) Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
B) "That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind."
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) Full
B) Last Quarter
C) New
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) The moon doesn't revolve around the earth in the same plane as the earth
B) It depends on what time of year it is
C) It depends on the earth's orbit
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) 40,000,000 miles
B) 4 light years
C) 40 light years
D) 400 light years
  • 44. Which of the following is not a constellation of the zodiac?
A) Libra
B) Leo
C) Orion
D) Cancer
  • 45. Which is not a circumpolar constellation?
A) Both of the answers are circumpolar
B) Ursa Minor
C) Neither of the answers are circumpolar
D) Ursa Major
  • 46. Absolute magnitude is the brightness of a star...
A) from right where it is
B) from 100,000 miles away
C) from a standard distance
D) from 1 light year away
  • 47. Apparent magnitude is the brightness of a star....
A) from right where it is
B) from a standard distance
C) from 100,000 miles away
D) from 1 light year away
  • 48. What is the closest major galaxy to ours?
A) Crab Nebula
B) Alpha Centuari
C) Andromeda
D) Hercules
  • 49. Astronomers think the universe is about...
A) 4 billion years old
B) 1 million years old
C) 1 billion years old
D) 14 billion years old
  • 50. Astronomers think the universe is...
A) an open universe
B) a closed universe
C) astronomers aren't sure if it is open or closed
D) None of the answers are correct
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