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Astronomy Test
נתרם על ידי: Collins
  • 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, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
C) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
D) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
  • 5. What causes the seasons?
A) Both the tilt of the earth's axis and the earth's orbit
B) The tilt of the earth's axis
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) April
D) May
  • 7. What causes tides?
A) an earthquake
B) The moon's gravity
C) a tsunami
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 cause tsunamis
C) They are lower than usual
D) They are higher than usual
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The sun's gravity
B) The earth's orbit
C) The moon's orbit
D) The earth's rotation
  • 10. How long does it take for the moon to complete all of its phases?
A) 29 days
B) 1 year
C) 1 week
D) 2 weeks
  • 11. What is a blue moon?
A) when the man on the moon is sad
B) The second full moon of a month
C) when the moon appears blue in color
D) The first full moon of a month
  • 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) From the gravitational attraction between molecules.
B) None of the answers are correct.
C) From a the gases left over from an exploding star.
D) Both of the answers are correct.
  • 14. What causes a lunar eclipse?
A) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
B) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
C) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
D) The moon passes through it's own 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 sun passes through the earth's shadow.
D) The moon 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) Elliptical
B) Regular
C) Spiral
D) Irregular
  • 18. What is the hottest star?
A) red
B) yellow
C) super giant
D) blue
  • 19. The Big Bang Theory explains.....
A) how the sound travels through space
B) how stars explode
C) how long it will take to travel in space
D) the formation of the universe
  • 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 million miles
B) 93 billion miles
C) 93 thousand miles
D) 1 light year
  • 22. What causes the aurora borealis?
A) sunset
B) northern lights
C) the moon
D) solar wind
  • 23. Which planet is smallest?
A) Mercury
B) Mars
C) Moon
D) Earth
  • 24. Between which two planets are most of the asteroids located?
A) Jupiter and Saturn
B) Uranus and Neptune
C) Saturn and Uranus
D) Mars and Jupiter
  • 25. Which planet is closest to Earth?
A) Venus
B) Moon
C) Mars
D) Mercury
  • 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) astronomers aren't sure
B) the asteroids
C) solar wind
D) the gravity of the sun
  • 28. What is unusual about most comets orbits?
A) The don't orbit they hit the sun.
B) They travel in the opposite direction around the sun
C) They are perfectly circular
D) It is highly elliptical
  • 29. About what date do the seasons change?
A) 15th
B) 21st
C) the last day of the month
D) 1st
  • 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 combined gravity of all the planets and the moon
B) The combined gravity of the moon and earth.
C) The gravity of the sun.
D) The combined gravity of the sun and moon
  • 32. Where do the world's highest tides occur?
A) Sweden
B) In the Indian Ocean
C) Canada
D) United States
  • 33. What is the postion of the sun, moon and earth for a new moon?
A) earth, sun, moon
B) Sun, earth, moon
C) moon, earth, sun
D) Sun, moon, earth
  • 34. What is it called as the moon goes from new moon to full moon?
A) waning
B) waxing
C) gibbous
D) crescent
  • 35. What is it called as the moon goes from full to new?
A) gibbous
B) waxing
C) crescent
D) waning
  • 36. What year did the moon walk take place?
A) 1949
B) 1969
C) 1959
D) 1979
  • 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) John Glenn
B) Alan Shepard
C) Neil Armstrong
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) "Houston, we have a problem."
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) Last Quarter
B) New
C) Full
D) 1st quarter
  • 41. During what moon phase does a solar eclipse take place?
A) New
B) Full
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) The moon doesn't revolve around the earth in the same plane as the earth
C) It depends on the earth's orbit
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) 4 light years
D) 400 light years
  • 44. Which of the following is not a constellation of the zodiac?
A) Libra
B) Cancer
C) Leo
D) Orion
  • 45. Which is not a circumpolar constellation?
A) Ursa Minor
B) Both of the answers are circumpolar
C) Neither of the answers are circumpolar
D) Ursa Major
  • 46. Absolute magnitude is the brightness of a star...
A) from 100,000 miles away
B) from a standard distance
C) from right where it is
D) from 1 light year away
  • 47. Apparent 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
  • 48. What is the closest major galaxy to ours?
A) Alpha Centuari
B) Crab Nebula
C) Andromeda
D) Hercules
  • 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) 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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