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Astronomy 25
  • 1. Billions of stars held together by gravity
A) solar system
B) constellation
C) galaxy
D) super nova
  • 2. All of space and everything in it
A) solar system
B) mega verse
C) galaxy
D) Universe
  • 3. Our sun looks bigger and brighter than other stars because
A) The other stars are in another galaxy
B) it's bigger than the other stars
C) Its closest to earth
D) It's different than all the other stars
  • 4. Name the order of the planets
A) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
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, Uranus, Neptune
  • 5. The theory that explains how the universe began
A) Supernova
B) Big Pop
C) Big Daddy
D) Big Bang
  • 6. A nebula is where
A) black holes form
B) stars are formed
C) galaxies form
D) comets form
  • 7. A planet closer to the sun has a shorter year than one father away because
A) its orbit is a shorter distance
B) because the inner planets are smaller
C) because it has no moon.
D) because the inner planets are made of rock
  • 8. Which planet is farthest from Earth?
A) Venus
B) Jupiter
C) Uranus
D) Mercury
  • 9. Comets are made of
A) rocks
B) real snow balls
C) frozen gas and dust
D) clouds
  • 10. Why is Earth unique in the solar system?
A) All of these
B) It has oxygen to breath
C) It has life
D) It has liquid water
  • 11. Why don't we have any pictures of our own galaxy?
A) It only likes selfies.
B) It's too dark
C) It is moving too fast, so the picture would be blurry.
D) We cannot get far enough away to take a picture of something so big.
  • 12. The time it takes a planet to rotate on its axis once is a _______ on that planet.
A) decade
B) day
C) month
D) year
  • 13. The major force that holds bodies in space together is
A) light-years
B) magnetism
C) orbit speed
D) gravity
  • 14. The motion of one body in space orbiting another body in space
A) retrograde
B) revolution
C) spinning
D) rotation
  • 15. Particles from the sun cause gases to glow in our atmosphere called
A) glow show
B) fireworks
C) auroras
D) magnetic storm
  • 16. The sun has more gravity than the planets because it ...
A) is bigger
B) is hot
C) has the most mass
D) it is made of gas
  • 17. A moon revolves around a
A) the asteroid belt
B) planet
C) a star
D) nothing
  • 18. Earth's rotation time is
A) 365 days
B) 24 hours
C) causes seasons
D) 1 year
  • 19. Large rock-like objects that are too small to be planets
A) meteorites
B) comets
C) asteroids
D) exoplanets
  • 20. The closer a planet is to the sun...
A) the faster it revolves around the sun
B) the longer the year
C) the faster it rotates
  • 21. The Earth's revolution time is
A) 24 hours
B) a light year
C) 365 days
D) 24 days
  • 22. Stars are made mostly of
A) hydrogen
B) carbon
C) methane
D) oxygen
  • 23. Earth's closet star is
A) the sun
B) Big Dipper
C) the moon
D) the asteroid belt
  • 24. The name of our galaxy is
A) Andromeda
B) Orion
C) Antares
D) Milky Way
  • 25. A planet revolves around a
A) pickle
B) galaxy
C) moon
D) star
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