- 1. Which is a tool that astronomers use?
A) hammer
B) moon
C) stethascope
D) optical telescope
- 2. Which is a tool that astronomers use?
A) steth seeker
B) porsle sight
C) radio telescope
D) optical probe
- 3. A light-year is the distance that light travels in:
A) 1 second
B) 1 year
C) 1 week
D) 1 month
- 4. A radio teleschope collects what?
A) sound waves
B) radio waves
C) music
D) pictures of outerspace.
- 5. What is something doing when it circles another object? It is.....
A) circling
B) orbiting
C) day
D) rotating
- 6. What is a force that pulls objects to each other?
A) orbit
B) solar sytem
C) gravity
D) rotate
- 7. What is the time that it takes the Earth to circle the sun once?
A) year
B) day
- 8. What is the time that it takes the Earth to spin around once on its axis?
A) year
B) day
- 9. There are _________ planets in the solar system.
A) 10 (counting the sun)
B) nine
C) eight
D) 365 days
- 10. Every time the Earth orbits the sun, one _________ goes by
A) year
B) day
C) month
D) week
- 11. Which planet is closest to the sun?
A) Pluto
B) Earth
C) Mercury
D) Venus
- 12. Which planet is the largest in our Solar System?
A) Mercury
B) Jupiter
C) Sun
D) Earth
- 13. Which of these suns have the hottest surface temperature?
A) Yellow Sun
B) White Sun
C) Red Sun
D) Blue Sun
- 14. The most accepted theory for the creation of the Universe is called the:
A) Steady-State Theory
B) Einstein's Theory
C) Space Theory
D) Big Bang Theory
- 15. Which of these is not a type of Galaxy
A) Irregular
B) Spiral
C) Cube
D) Elliptical
- 16. A supernova is a large explosion of a:
A) Star
B) Planet
C) Moon
- 17. It takes about one ___________ for the moon to orbit the Earth.
A) 24 hours
B) week
C) month
D) 366 days during a leap year
- 18. The name of our Galaxy is called the:
A) Milk Bar
B) Nebula
C) Milky Way
D) Andromeda
- 19. All electromagnetic waves travel at:
A) The speed of sound.
B) The speed of a bullet.
C) The speed of a Jet.
D) The speed of light.
- 20. The most common landforms on the moon are__________.
A) lakes
B) craters
C) rocks
D) mountians
- 21. A Nebula is a large Interstellar:
A) Neutron Star
B) Blackhole
C) Cloud
D) Planet
- 22. The Ngarrindjeri people who occupy the Coorong and Murray Valley region of South Australia saw the Southern Cross as a:
A) Giant Stingray
B) Starfish
C) Prawn
D) Crab
- 23. What is the name given to stars that are 10 times larger than our own Sun?
A) Giant
B) Supergiants
C) Megagiants
- 24. Which chemical element is the most abundant in the Universe?
A) Hydrogen
B) Iron
C) Carbon
D) Oxygen
- 25. Stars appear very small in the night sky because they are:
A) Microscopic Stars
B) Light-years away
C) 1 kilometre away
D) 1000 kilometres away
- 26. Approximately how long does it take light from the Sun to reach your eyes?
A) 2 days
B) 1 hour
C) 5 years
D) 8 minutes
- 27. Saturday is named after which planet in our Solar System?
A) Mars
B) Saturn
C) Mercury
D) Jupiter
- 28. What do we call a region in spacetime with a strong gravitational effect that nothing—including light—can escape from inside it?
A) Blackhole
B) Red Giant
C) Galaxy
D) Nebula
- 29. Groups of Stars, in our Night Sky, that are shaped like Animals or familiar objects are called:
A) Constellations
B) Galaxies
C) Doodles
D) Nebulas
|