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Astronomy Test
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  • 1. What takes place in the center of the sun?
A) helium is formed
B) all of the answers are correct
C) hydrogen fuses together
D) nuclear fusion
  • 2. True or False The sun gives off all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
A) False
B) True
  • 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, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
C) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
D) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
  • 5. What causes the seasons?
A) How close earth is to the sun
B) Both the tilt of the earth's axis and the earth's orbit
C) The earth's orbit
D) The tilt of the earth's axis
  • 6. What month does the 1st day of spring occur?
A) March
B) June
C) April
D) May
  • 7. What causes tides?
A) The moon's gravity
B) The earth's gravity
C) a tsunami
D) an earthquake
  • 8. Neap tides cause what to happen to tides?
A) They have no effect on the height of tides
B) They are higher than usual
C) They are lower than usual
D) They cause tsunamis
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The sun's gravity
B) The earth's orbit
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) 2 weeks
B) 1 year
C) 29 days
D) 1 week
  • 11. What is a blue moon?
A) when the man on the moon is sad
B) when the moon appears blue in color
C) The first full moon of a month
D) The second full moon of a month
  • 12. Who was the first person on the moon?
A) Buzz Aldren
B) Neil Armstrong
C) Alan Shepard
D) John Glenn
  • 13. How did the solar system form?
A) None of the answers are correct.
B) From the gravitational attraction between molecules.
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 sun's shadow.
B) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
C) The moon passes through it's own shadow.
D) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
  • 15. What causes a solar eclipse?
A) The earth passes through the sun's shadow.
B) The sun passes through the earth's shadow.
C) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
D) The earth passes through the moon'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) Spiral
B) Regular
C) Elliptical
D) Irregular
  • 18. What is the hottest star?
A) red
B) super giant
C) yellow
D) blue
  • 19. The Big Bang Theory explains.....
A) the formation of the universe
B) how stars explode
C) how long it will take to travel in space
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) super giant
D) main sequence
  • 21. How far away is the sun from the earth?
A) 93 billion miles
B) 93 thousand miles
C) 1 light year
D) 93 million miles
  • 22. What causes the aurora borealis?
A) solar wind
B) the moon
C) northern lights
D) sunset
  • 23. Which planet is smallest?
A) Earth
B) Mercury
C) Mars
D) Moon
  • 24. Between which two planets are most of the asteroids located?
A) Jupiter and Saturn
B) Saturn and Uranus
C) Uranus and Neptune
D) Mars and Jupiter
  • 25. Which planet is closest to Earth?
A) Mars
B) Mercury
C) Moon
D) Venus
  • 26. Why is Earth unique in the solar system?
A) It has life
B) It has a moon
C) It has volcanoes
D) It is the last inner planet
  • 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) They are perfectly circular
B) It is highly elliptical
C) The don't orbit they hit the sun.
D) They travel in the opposite direction around the sun
  • 29. About what date do the seasons change?
A) 1st
B) 15th
C) 21st
D) the last day of the month
  • 30. What is the 1st day of Fall called?
A) Vernal Solstice
B) Autumnal Equinox
C) Vernal 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 gravity of the sun.
D) The combined gravity of the moon and earth.
  • 32. Where do the world's highest tides occur?
A) United States
B) Canada
C) In the Indian Ocean
D) Sweden
  • 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) waxing
C) gibbous
D) crescent
  • 35. What is it called as the moon goes from full to new?
A) crescent
B) gibbous
C) waning
D) waxing
  • 36. What year did the moon walk take place?
A) 1959
B) 1949
C) 1979
D) 1969
  • 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) Alan Shepard
B) Neil Armstrong
C) John Glenn
D) Yuri Gargarin
  • 39. What is the famous quote from the first moon walk?
A) "To go places and do things that have never been done before - that's what living is all about."
B) "Houston, we have a problem."
C) Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
D) "That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind."
  • 40. During what phase of the moon does a lunar eclipse take place?
A) Last Quarter
B) New
C) 1st quarter
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) The moon doesn't revolve around the earth in the same plane as the earth
B) It depends on the earth's orbit
C) They do occur once a month you just can't seem them from all places on the earth
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) 400 light years
C) 40 light years
D) 4 light years
  • 44. Which of the following is not a constellation of the zodiac?
A) Orion
B) Leo
C) Libra
D) Cancer
  • 45. Which is not a circumpolar constellation?
A) Ursa Minor
B) Neither of the answers are circumpolar
C) Ursa Major
D) Both of the answers are circumpolar
  • 46. Absolute magnitude is the brightness of a star...
A) from a standard distance
B) from right where it is
C) from 100,000 miles away
D) from 1 light year away
  • 47. Apparent magnitude is the brightness of a star....
A) from 100,000 miles away
B) from a standard distance
C) from 1 light year away
D) from right where it is
  • 48. What is the closest major galaxy to ours?
A) Andromeda
B) Hercules
C) Alpha Centuari
D) Crab Nebula
  • 49. Astronomers think the universe is about...
A) 4 billion years old
B) 1 billion years old
C) 14 billion years old
D) 1 million years old
  • 50. Astronomers think the universe is...
A) astronomers aren't sure if it is open or closed
B) a closed universe
C) an open universe
D) None of the answers are correct
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