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Astronomy 50
供稿人: Trieu
(原作者: 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) Uranus
C) Saturn
D) Mercury
  • 4. Name the order of the planets
A) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
B) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
C) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
D) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
  • 5. Who is the father of Astronomy?
A) Galileo
B) Armstrong
C) Hubble
D) Copernicus
  • 6. What is the name of the telescope which orbits Earth?
A) International Space Station
B) Armstrong
C) Galileo Probe
D) Hubble
  • 7. Which planets are considered terrestrial
A) planets with rings
B) gas planets
C) outer planets
D) inner planets
  • 8. What causes day and night on Earth?
A) it tilted axis
B) its rotation
C) its revolution
D) its orbit around the sun
  • 9. What causes the phases of the moon
A) The earth's orbit
B) The earth's rotation
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) 1 week
B) 29 days
C) 2 weeks
D) 1 year
  • 11. What determines length of year on a planet
A) the planet's size
B) rotation
C) revolution
D) its axis
  • 12. Who was the first person on the moon?
A) Alan Shepard
B) Neil Armstrong
C) Buzz Aldren
D) John Glenn
  • 13. Which measurement is the largest distance
A) light-minute
B) 1 trillion miles
C) Light-year
D) AU
  • 14. What causes a lunar eclipse?
A) The earth passes through the moon's shadow.
B) The moon passes through the earth's shadow.
C) The moon passes through it's own shadow.
D) The earth passes through the sun'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 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) One way
C) Andromeda
D) Milky Way
  • 17. What type of galaxy is ours?
A) Irregular
B) Elliptical
C) Regular
D) Barred Spiral
  • 18. What is the birthplace of stars
A) Maine Medical Center
B) asteroid belt
C) constellation
D) Nebula
  • 19. The Big Bang Theory explains.....
A) the formation of the universe
B) how stars explode
C) how the sound travels through space
D) how long it will take to travel in space
  • 20. The gravity of a body in space depends on its
A) atmosphere
B) size
C) moons
D) mass
  • 21. How far away is the sun from the earth?
A) 93 thousand miles
B) 1 light year
C) 93 million miles
D) 93 billion miles
  • 22. What causes the aurora borealis?
A) the moon
B) fireworks
C) solar wind
D) sunset
  • 23. Which planet has the shortest year?
A) Mercury
B) Mars
C) Moon
D) Earth
  • 24. Between which two planets are most of the asteroids located?
A) Mars and Jupiter
B) Uranus and Neptune
C) Saturn and Uranus
D) Jupiter and Saturn
  • 25. Which planet is farthest from earth?
A) uranus
B) jupiter
C) Mars
D) Neptune
  • 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) 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) The don't orbit they hit the sun.
B) They travel in the opposite direction around the sun
C) It is very elliptical
D) They are perfectly circular
  • 29. A meteorite can be seen
A) floating in space
B) Near Jupiter's rings
C) streaking through the atmosphere
D) on the earth's surface
  • 30. A meteor can be seen
A) on earth's surface
B) streaking through earth's atmosphere
C) all of these answers
D) floating in space
  • 31. A comet's tail points away from the sun because of
A) solar wind
B) sublimation
C) it does not point away from the sun
D) sunlight
  • 32. Earth's only natural satellite is
A) Hubble Telescope
B) the inner planets
C) the sun
D) the moon
  • 33. What is the postion of the sun, moon and earth for a new moon?
A) moon, earth, sun
B) earth, sun, moon
C) Sun, earth, moon
D) Sun, moon, earth
  • 34. What is it called as the moon goes from new moon to full moon?
A) crescent
B) waning
C) waxing
D) gibbous
  • 35. What is it called as the moon goes from full to new?
A) waning
B) waxing
C) crescent
D) gibbous
  • 36. How many stars in our galaxy
A) infinite
B) millions
C) billions
D) one, the sun
  • 37. A huge exploding star is called a
A) nebula
B) supernova
C) solar event
D) astro nova
  • 38. A solar flare creates
A) huge amount of energy
B) all of these answers
C) an aurora on earth
D) solar wind
  • 39. On which if these would you weigh the least?
A) moon
B) Mars
C) Earth
D) Venus
  • 40. During what phase of the moon does a lunar eclipse take place?
A) Last Quarter
B) Full
C) New
D) 1st quarter
  • 41. During what moon phase does a solar eclipse take place?
A) 1st quarter
B) Full
C) Last Quarter
D) New
  • 42. Why doesn't each eclipse happen every month?
A) They do occur once a month you just can't seem them from all places on the earth
B) It depends on what time of year it is
C) It depends on the earth's orbit
D) The moon's orbit is does not line up perfectly with the Earth
  • 43. True or False The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second
A) False
B) True
  • 44. The DISTANCE light travels in one year is called a
A) 186,000 m/s
B) AU
C) light-year
D) light mile
  • 45. Scientist believe that the Earth and our solar system are about how old?
A) 4.5 billion years
B) 13.7 million years
C) 4.5 million year
D) 13.7 billion years
  • 46. What measurement is used for distances within our solar system
A) AU's
B) meters
C) light-years
D) light-seconds
  • 47. What is the name of the aurora in the southern hemisphere
A) Aurora Antarctica
B) Aurora Australis
C) Holy Aurora
D) Aurora Borealis
  • 48. Why doesn't a comet far away from the sun have a tail?
A) It's too small
B) It's too cold
C) It turns into rock
D) It's going too fast
  • 49. Astronomers think the universe is about...
A) 14 billion years old
B) 1 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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