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Astronomy 50
Opracowany przez: Trieu
(Autor testu pierwotnego: Collins)
  • 1. True of False The Sun is the largest star in our galaxy
A) True
B) False
  • 2. True or False The sun has more gravity than all the other bodies in our solar system
A) False
B) True
  • 3. Which planet is largest?
A) Saturn
B) Uranus
C) Jupiter
D) Mercury
  • 4. Name the order of the planets
A) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
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, Neptune, Uranus
  • 5. Who is the father of Astronomy?
A) Galileo
B) Copernicus
C) Hubble
D) Armstrong
  • 6. What is the name of the telescope which orbits Earth?
A) Galileo Probe
B) Hubble
C) Armstrong
D) International Space Station
  • 7. Which planets are considered terrestrial
A) inner planets
B) planets with rings
C) gas planets
D) outer planets
  • 8. What causes day and night on Earth?
A) its orbit around the sun
B) its rotation
C) it tilted axis
D) its revolution
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The earth's rotation
B) The moon's orbit
C) The earth's orbit
D) The sun's gravity
  • 10. How long does it take for the moon to complete all of its phases?
A) 1 year
B) 29 days
C) 2 weeks
D) 1 week
  • 11. What determines length of year on a planet
A) the planet's size
B) its axis
C) rotation
D) revolution
  • 12. Who was the first person on the moon?
A) Neil Armstrong
B) Alan Shepard
C) John Glenn
D) Buzz Aldren
  • 13. Which measurement is the largest distance
A) Light-year
B) AU
C) 1 trillion miles
D) light-minute
  • 14. What causes a lunar eclipse?
A) The moon passes through it's own shadow.
B) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
C) The moon passes through the earth's 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 sun passes through the earth's shadow.
C) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
D) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
  • 16. What is the name of our galaxy?
A) The Big Bang
B) One way
C) Andromeda
D) Milky Way
  • 17. What type of galaxy is ours?
A) Irregular
B) Barred Spiral
C) Regular
D) Elliptical
  • 18. What is the birthplace of stars
A) asteroid belt
B) Maine Medical Center
C) Nebula
D) constellation
  • 19. The Big Bang Theory explains.....
A) the formation of the universe
B) how stars explode
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) mass
B) moons
C) atmosphere
D) size
  • 21. How far away is the sun from the earth?
A) 1 light year
B) 93 billion miles
C) 93 thousand miles
D) 93 million miles
  • 22. What causes the aurora borealis?
A) the moon
B) fireworks
C) solar wind
D) sunset
  • 23. Which planet has the shortest year?
A) Mars
B) Mercury
C) Earth
D) Moon
  • 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 farthest from earth?
A) uranus
B) Neptune
C) Mars
D) jupiter
  • 26. Why is Earth unique in the solar system?
A) It has volcanoes
B) It has life
C) It is the last inner planet
D) It has a moon
  • 27. What causes the comet's tail?
A) the asteroids
B) the gravity of the sun
C) solar wind
D) astronomers aren't sure
  • 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 very elliptical
  • 29. A meteorite can be seen
A) Near Jupiter's rings
B) floating in space
C) on the earth's surface
D) streaking through the atmosphere
  • 30. A meteor can be seen
A) streaking through earth's atmosphere
B) floating in space
C) on earth's surface
D) all of these answers
  • 31. A comet's tail points away from the sun because of
A) solar wind
B) sunlight
C) sublimation
D) it does not point away from the sun
  • 32. Earth's only natural satellite is
A) the inner planets
B) the moon
C) the sun
D) Hubble Telescope
  • 33. What is the postion of the sun, moon and earth for a new moon?
A) moon, earth, sun
B) Sun, moon, earth
C) Sun, earth, moon
D) earth, sun, moon
  • 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) waxing
B) crescent
C) gibbous
D) waning
  • 36. How many stars in our galaxy
A) one, the sun
B) infinite
C) millions
D) billions
  • 37. A huge exploding star is called a
A) solar event
B) astro nova
C) supernova
D) nebula
  • 38. A solar flare creates
A) solar wind
B) an aurora on earth
C) huge amount of energy
D) all of these answers
  • 39. On which if these would you weigh the least?
A) Mars
B) moon
C) Earth
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) Full
B) 1st quarter
C) Last Quarter
D) New
  • 42. Why doesn't each eclipse happen every month?
A) It depends on the earth's orbit
B) It depends on what time of year it is
C) They do occur once a month you just can't seem them from all places on the earth
D) The moon's orbit is does not line up perfectly with the Earth
  • 43. True or False The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second
A) False
B) True
  • 44. The DISTANCE light travels in one year is called a
A) AU
B) light mile
C) 186,000 m/s
D) light-year
  • 45. Scientist believe that the Earth and our solar system are about how old?
A) 4.5 million year
B) 4.5 billion years
C) 13.7 billion years
D) 13.7 million years
  • 46. What measurement is used for distances within our solar system
A) AU's
B) meters
C) light-years
D) light-seconds
  • 47. What is the name of the aurora in the southern hemisphere
A) Aurora Borealis
B) Aurora Antarctica
C) Aurora Australis
D) Holy Aurora
  • 48. Why doesn't a comet far away from the sun have a tail?
A) It's going too fast
B) It's too cold
C) It's too small
D) It turns into rock
  • 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) None of the answers are correct
B) standing still
C) shrinking
D) expanding
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