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