Astronomy Test
  • 1. What takes place in the center of the sun?
A) nuclear fusion
B) all of the answers are correct
C) hydrogen fuses together
D) helium is formed
  • 2. True or False The sun gives off all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
A) False
B) True
  • 3. Which planet is largest?
A) Mercury
B) Saturn
C) Jupiter
D) Uranus
  • 4. Name the order of the planets
A) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
C) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
D) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
  • 5. What causes the seasons?
A) The earth's orbit
B) The tilt of the earth's axis
C) How close earth is to the sun
D) Both the tilt of the earth's axis and the earth's orbit
  • 6. What month does the 1st day of spring occur?
A) May
B) June
C) March
D) April
  • 7. What causes tides?
A) The moon's gravity
B) an earthquake
C) The earth's gravity
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 lower than usual
D) They are higher than usual
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The earth's orbit
B) The earth's rotation
C) The sun's gravity
D) The moon's orbit
  • 10. How long does it take for the moon to complete all of its phases?
A) 29 days
B) 2 weeks
C) 1 week
D) 1 year
  • 11. What is a blue moon?
A) The second full moon of a month
B) when the moon appears blue in color
C) The first full moon of a month
D) when the man on the moon is sad
  • 12. Who was the first person on the moon?
A) Buzz Aldren
B) Alan Shepard
C) John Glenn
D) Neil Armstrong
  • 13. How did the solar system form?
A) From a the gases left over from an exploding star.
B) From the gravitational attraction between molecules.
C) None of the answers are correct.
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 it's own shadow.
C) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
D) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
  • 15. What causes a solar eclipse?
A) The sun passes through the earth's shadow.
B) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
C) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
D) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
  • 16. What is the name of our galaxy?
A) Milk and Juice
B) Snickers
C) One way
D) Milky Way
  • 17. What type of galaxy is ours?
A) Spiral
B) Regular
C) Elliptical
D) Irregular
  • 18. What is the hottest star?
A) red
B) blue
C) super giant
D) yellow
  • 19. The Big Bang Theory explains.....
A) the formation of the universe
B) how long it will take to travel in space
C) how stars explode
D) how the sound travels through space
  • 20. What type of star is the sun on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
A) red giant
B) white dwarf
C) main sequence
D) super giant
  • 21. How far away is the sun from the earth?
A) 93 thousand miles
B) 93 billion miles
C) 1 light year
D) 93 million miles
  • 22. What causes the aurora borealis?
A) the moon
B) northern lights
C) solar wind
D) sunset
  • 23. Which planet is smallest?
A) Mercury
B) Earth
C) Moon
D) Mars
  • 24. Between which two planets are most of the asteroids located?
A) Mars and Jupiter
B) Jupiter and Saturn
C) Uranus and Neptune
D) Saturn and Uranus
  • 25. Which planet is closest to Earth?
A) Mercury
B) Mars
C) Moon
D) Venus
  • 26. Why is Earth unique in the solar system?
A) It is the last inner planet
B) It has a moon
C) It has volcanoes
D) It has life
  • 27. What causes the comet's tail?
A) astronomers aren't sure
B) the asteroids
C) the gravity of the sun
D) solar wind
  • 28. What is unusual about most comets orbits?
A) They are perfectly circular
B) They travel in the opposite direction around the sun
C) The don't orbit they hit the sun.
D) It is highly elliptical
  • 29. About what date do the seasons change?
A) the last day of the month
B) 15th
C) 21st
D) 1st
  • 30. What is the 1st day of Fall called?
A) Vernal Equinox
B) Autumnal Solstice
C) Vernal Solstice
D) Autumnal Equinox
  • 31. Spring tides are higher because....
A) The combined gravity of all the planets and the moon
B) The gravity of the sun.
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) United States
B) In the Indian Ocean
C) Canada
D) Sweden
  • 33. What is the postion of the sun, moon and earth for a new moon?
A) Sun, earth, moon
B) moon, earth, sun
C) Sun, moon, earth
D) earth, sun, moon
  • 34. What is it called as the moon goes from new moon to full moon?
A) waning
B) gibbous
C) waxing
D) crescent
  • 35. What is it called as the moon goes from full to new?
A) waxing
B) crescent
C) waning
D) gibbous
  • 36. What year did the moon walk take place?
A) 1959
B) 1949
C) 1969
D) 1979
  • 37. What was the name of the first satellite in space?
A) Cosmo 1
B) Apollo 1
C) Explorer 1
D) Sputnik
  • 38. Who was the first man in space?
A) Neil Armstrong
B) Alan Shepard
C) Yuri Gargarin
D) John Glenn
  • 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, we have a problem."
C) Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
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) 1st quarter
B) New
C) Full
D) Last Quarter
  • 41. During what moon phase does a solar eclipse take place?
A) 1st quarter
B) New
C) Last Quarter
D) Full
  • 42. Why doesn't each eclipse happen every month?
A) It depends on the earth's orbit
B) They do occur once a month you just can't seem them from all places on the earth
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) 400 light years
B) 40 light years
C) 4 light years
D) 40,000,000 miles
  • 44. Which of the following is not a constellation of the zodiac?
A) Libra
B) Orion
C) Cancer
D) Leo
  • 45. Which is not a circumpolar constellation?
A) Neither of the answers are circumpolar
B) Ursa Minor
C) Ursa Major
D) Both of the answers are circumpolar
  • 46. Absolute magnitude is the brightness of a star...
A) from 1 light year away
B) from a standard distance
C) from 100,000 miles away
D) from right where it is
  • 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) Andromeda
C) Crab Nebula
D) Hercules
  • 49. Astronomers think the universe is about...
A) 14 billion years old
B) 1 million years old
C) 1 billion years old
D) 4 billion years old
  • 50. Astronomers think the universe is...
A) astronomers aren't sure if it is open or closed
B) an open universe
C) None of the answers are correct
D) a closed universe
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