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Astronomy 50
Con il contributo di: Trieu
(Autore originale: Collins)
  • 1. True of False The Sun is the largest star in our galaxy
A) False
B) True
  • 2. True or False The sun has more gravity than all the other bodies in our solar system
A) True
B) False
  • 3. Which planet is largest?
A) Uranus
B) Mercury
C) Saturn
D) Jupiter
  • 4. Name the order of the planets
A) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
C) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
D) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
  • 5. Who is the father of Astronomy?
A) Hubble
B) Armstrong
C) Galileo
D) Copernicus
  • 6. What is the name of the telescope which orbits Earth?
A) Galileo Probe
B) Hubble
C) International Space Station
D) Armstrong
  • 7. Which planets are considered terrestrial
A) inner planets
B) gas planets
C) planets with rings
D) outer planets
  • 8. What causes day and night on Earth?
A) its rotation
B) its orbit around the sun
C) it tilted axis
D) its revolution
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The earth's orbit
B) The sun's gravity
C) The earth's rotation
D) The moon's orbit
  • 10. How long does it take for the moon to complete all of its phases?
A) 1 year
B) 1 week
C) 2 weeks
D) 29 days
  • 11. What determines length of year on a planet
A) the planet's size
B) rotation
C) its axis
D) revolution
  • 12. Who was the first person on the moon?
A) Alan Shepard
B) John Glenn
C) Buzz Aldren
D) Neil Armstrong
  • 13. Which measurement is the largest distance
A) Light-year
B) 1 trillion miles
C) AU
D) light-minute
  • 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 earth passes through the moon'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 moon passes through the earth'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) Milky Way
B) One way
C) The Big Bang
D) Andromeda
  • 17. What type of galaxy is ours?
A) Regular
B) Irregular
C) Barred Spiral
D) Elliptical
  • 18. What is the birthplace of stars
A) constellation
B) asteroid belt
C) Nebula
D) Maine Medical Center
  • 19. The Big Bang Theory explains.....
A) how stars explode
B) the formation of the universe
C) how the sound travels through space
D) how long it will take to travel in space
  • 20. The gravity of a body in space depends on its
A) atmosphere
B) mass
C) moons
D) size
  • 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) sunset
B) fireworks
C) solar wind
D) the moon
  • 23. Which planet has the shortest year?
A) Mars
B) Moon
C) Mercury
D) Earth
  • 24. Between which two planets are most of the asteroids located?
A) Uranus and Neptune
B) Saturn and Uranus
C) Jupiter and Saturn
D) Mars and Jupiter
  • 25. Which planet is farthest from earth?
A) jupiter
B) Neptune
C) Mars
D) uranus
  • 26. Why is Earth unique in the solar system?
A) It has life
B) It is the last inner planet
C) It has volcanoes
D) It has a moon
  • 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) The don't orbit they hit the sun.
B) They are perfectly circular
C) It is very elliptical
D) They travel in the opposite direction around the sun
  • 29. A meteorite can be seen
A) streaking through the atmosphere
B) Near Jupiter's rings
C) on the earth's surface
D) floating in space
  • 30. A meteor can be seen
A) all of these answers
B) streaking through earth's atmosphere
C) floating in space
D) on earth's surface
  • 31. A comet's tail points away from the sun because of
A) sublimation
B) it does not point away from the sun
C) sunlight
D) solar wind
  • 32. Earth's only natural satellite is
A) the moon
B) the sun
C) the inner planets
D) Hubble Telescope
  • 33. What is the postion of the sun, moon and earth for a new moon?
A) earth, sun, moon
B) moon, earth, sun
C) Sun, earth, moon
D) Sun, moon, earth
  • 34. What is it called as the moon goes from new moon to full moon?
A) waxing
B) crescent
C) waning
D) gibbous
  • 35. What is it called as the moon goes from full to new?
A) gibbous
B) waning
C) crescent
D) waxing
  • 36. How many stars in our galaxy
A) billions
B) infinite
C) one, the sun
D) millions
  • 37. A huge exploding star is called a
A) nebula
B) astro nova
C) solar event
D) supernova
  • 38. A solar flare creates
A) all of these answers
B) solar wind
C) huge amount of energy
D) an aurora on earth
  • 39. On which if these would you weigh the least?
A) Earth
B) Mars
C) moon
D) Venus
  • 40. During what phase of the moon does a lunar eclipse take place?
A) 1st quarter
B) Last Quarter
C) New
D) Full
  • 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's orbit is does not line up perfectly with 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. True or False The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second
A) True
B) False
  • 44. The DISTANCE light travels in one year is called a
A) light mile
B) light-year
C) 186,000 m/s
D) AU
  • 45. Scientist believe that the Earth and our solar system are about how old?
A) 13.7 billion years
B) 13.7 million years
C) 4.5 million year
D) 4.5 billion years
  • 46. What measurement is used for distances within our solar system
A) light-years
B) AU's
C) light-seconds
D) meters
  • 47. What is the name of the aurora in the southern hemisphere
A) Aurora Australis
B) Aurora Borealis
C) Aurora Antarctica
D) Holy Aurora
  • 48. Why doesn't a comet far away from the sun have a tail?
A) It's too cold
B) It's too small
C) It turns into rock
D) It's going too fast
  • 49. Astronomers think the universe is about...
A) 1 billion years old
B) 14 billion years old
C) 1 million years old
D) 4 billion years old
  • 50. Astronomers think the universe is
A) expanding
B) standing still
C) shrinking
D) None of the answers are correct
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