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Astronomy Test
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  • 1. What takes place in the center of the sun?
A) nuclear fusion
B) helium is formed
C) hydrogen fuses together
D) all of the answers are correct
  • 2. True or False The sun gives off all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
A) True
B) False
  • 3. Which planet is largest?
A) Jupiter
B) Uranus
C) Mercury
D) Saturn
  • 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) The tilt of the earth's axis
B) Both the tilt of the earth's axis and the earth's orbit
C) How close earth is to the sun
D) The earth's orbit
  • 6. What month does the 1st day of spring occur?
A) April
B) May
C) March
D) June
  • 7. What causes tides?
A) The earth's gravity
B) a tsunami
C) an earthquake
D) The moon's gravity
  • 8. Neap tides cause what to happen to tides?
A) They cause tsunamis
B) They are higher than usual
C) They have no effect on the height of tides
D) They are lower than usual
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The moon's orbit
B) The earth's orbit
C) The earth's rotation
D) The sun's gravity
  • 10. How long does it take for the moon to complete all of its phases?
A) 1 week
B) 2 weeks
C) 1 year
D) 29 days
  • 11. What is a blue moon?
A) The second full moon of a month
B) The first full moon of a month
C) when the moon appears blue in color
D) when the man on the moon is sad
  • 12. Who was the first person on the moon?
A) Neil Armstrong
B) John Glenn
C) Alan Shepard
D) Buzz Aldren
  • 13. How did the solar system form?
A) From the gravitational attraction between molecules.
B) From a the gases left over from an exploding star.
C) Both of the answers are correct.
D) None of the answers are correct.
  • 14. What causes a lunar eclipse?
A) The moon passes through it's own shadow.
B) The earth passes through the moon's 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) Snickers
B) One way
C) Milky Way
D) Milk and Juice
  • 17. What type of galaxy is ours?
A) Regular
B) Irregular
C) Elliptical
D) Spiral
  • 18. What is the hottest star?
A) red
B) blue
C) yellow
D) super giant
  • 19. The Big Bang Theory explains.....
A) how long it will take to travel in space
B) the formation of the universe
C) how the sound travels through space
D) how stars explode
  • 20. What type of star is the sun on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
A) white dwarf
B) super giant
C) red giant
D) main sequence
  • 21. How far away is the sun from the earth?
A) 93 billion miles
B) 93 million miles
C) 1 light year
D) 93 thousand miles
  • 22. What causes the aurora borealis?
A) sunset
B) solar wind
C) the moon
D) northern lights
  • 23. Which planet is smallest?
A) Earth
B) Mars
C) Moon
D) Mercury
  • 24. Between which two planets are most of the asteroids located?
A) Saturn and Uranus
B) Jupiter and Saturn
C) Uranus and Neptune
D) Mars and Jupiter
  • 25. Which planet is closest to Earth?
A) Mercury
B) Venus
C) Mars
D) Moon
  • 26. Why is Earth unique in the solar system?
A) It has volcanoes
B) It is the last inner planet
C) It has a moon
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) The don't orbit they hit the sun.
B) They are perfectly circular
C) It is highly elliptical
D) They travel in the opposite direction around the sun
  • 29. About what date do the seasons change?
A) the last day of the month
B) 21st
C) 15th
D) 1st
  • 30. What is the 1st day of Fall called?
A) Autumnal Equinox
B) Vernal Solstice
C) Autumnal Solstice
D) Vernal Equinox
  • 31. Spring tides are higher because....
A) The combined gravity of all the planets and the moon
B) The combined gravity of the moon and earth.
C) The gravity of the sun.
D) The combined gravity of the sun and moon
  • 32. Where do the world's highest tides occur?
A) Sweden
B) In the Indian Ocean
C) Canada
D) United States
  • 33. What is the postion of the sun, moon and earth for a new moon?
A) earth, sun, moon
B) Sun, earth, moon
C) moon, earth, sun
D) Sun, moon, earth
  • 34. What is it called as the moon goes from new moon to full moon?
A) waxing
B) crescent
C) gibbous
D) waning
  • 35. What is it called as the moon goes from full to new?
A) waxing
B) waning
C) crescent
D) gibbous
  • 36. What year did the moon walk take place?
A) 1969
B) 1949
C) 1959
D) 1979
  • 37. What was the name of the first satellite in space?
A) Explorer 1
B) Sputnik
C) Cosmo 1
D) Apollo 1
  • 38. Who was the first man in space?
A) John Glenn
B) Neil Armstrong
C) Yuri Gargarin
D) Alan Shepard
  • 39. What is the famous quote from the first moon walk?
A) "Houston, we have a problem."
B) "That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind."
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) Full
B) New
C) 1st quarter
D) Last Quarter
  • 41. During what moon phase does a solar eclipse take place?
A) 1st quarter
B) Last Quarter
C) Full
D) New
  • 42. Why doesn't each eclipse happen every month?
A) It depends on what time of year it is
B) The moon doesn't revolve around the earth in the same plane as the earth
C) They do occur once a month you just can't seem them from all places on the earth
D) It depends on the earth's orbit
  • 43. About how far away is the nearest star besides the sun?
A) 4 light years
B) 400 light years
C) 40 light years
D) 40,000,000 miles
  • 44. Which of the following is not a constellation of the zodiac?
A) Cancer
B) Libra
C) Leo
D) Orion
  • 45. Which is not a circumpolar constellation?
A) Ursa Major
B) Ursa Minor
C) Neither of the answers are circumpolar
D) Both of the answers are circumpolar
  • 46. Absolute 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
  • 47. Apparent magnitude is the brightness of a star....
A) from right where it is
B) from a standard distance
C) from 1 light year away
D) from 100,000 miles away
  • 48. What is the closest major galaxy to ours?
A) Crab Nebula
B) Andromeda
C) Hercules
D) Alpha Centuari
  • 49. Astronomers think the universe is about...
A) 1 million years old
B) 4 billion years old
C) 14 billion years old
D) 1 billion years old
  • 50. Astronomers think the universe is...
A) None of the answers are correct
B) astronomers aren't sure if it is open or closed
C) a closed universe
D) an open universe
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