Astronomy multiple choice

1. One year on Earth lasts 365 days. Which of 9. Which planet is the hottest?
these definitions could be used for one year?
A. Venus
A. The time it takes for Earth to go around the B. Mars
sun once. C. Mercury
B. The time it takes for the moon to go around D. Uranus
Earth 12 times.
C. The time for Earth to spin once on its axis. 10. How many terrestrial planets are there?
D. The time for the moon to complete all of its
phases. A. 5
B. 6
2. What is the sun? C. 4
D. 3
A. A white hole
B. A plant
C. A star 11. Scientists use to study stars and
D. A planet planets.

3. The moon the sun's light. A. telescopes

B. magnifying glasses
A. hides
C. microscopes
B. reflects
C. inverts D. hydrometers
D. loses
12. Which planet is known as the "Red Planet"?
4. What is the object that all planets in our solar
system orbit? A. Earth
B. Mars
A. The sun C. Uranus
B. The moon D. Venus
C. The Milky Way
D. Mercury 13. How are the two categories of planets
grouped?
5. Which planet is closest to the sun?
Mercury Jupiter
A. Mars Earth Saturn
B. Venus Mars Uranus
C. Mercury
D. Earth A. Shape
B. Color
6. Which planet is furthest from the sun? C. Size
D. inner and outer positions
A. Saturn
B. Neptune 14. When an object spins on its axis,
C. Uranus it .
D. Mars
A. vibrates
7. How many known planets are in our solar B. revolves
system? C. rotates
D. explodes
A. 9
B. 8
15. Choose the FALSE statement about the
C. 10
Milky Way Galaxy.
D. 7
A. It is a spiral galaxy.
8. Pluto is known as a planet.
B. It is billions of years old.
A. red C. It contains billions of stars.
B. large D. It is actually a cluster of galaxies.
C. dwarf
D. hot
 Astronomy multiple choice

16.The name of the galaxy where Earth is: 24. All of the following are inner planets
EXCEPT:
A. constellation
B. Milky Way A. Venus
C. stars B. Mars
C. Neptune
D. Kuiper's Belt
D. Earth
17. About how long does it take the moon to
25. Which statement below is correct?
complete a full lunar cycle?
A. The Earth revolves around the Sun &
A. a year
Moon.
B. a month
B. The Earth & Moon revolve around the Sun.
C. a week
C. The Moon revolves around the Sun, but the
D. a day Earth does not.
D. The Sun revolves around the Earth &
18. Which event causes the Earth to have day Moon.
and night?
26. One year on earth is defined by _____ .
A. The Earth rotates on its axis.
B. The moon blocks the sun at night. A. the time it takes the sun to revolve around
C. The revolution of the Earth around the sun. the earth.
D. The sun orbiting the Earth. B. the time it takes the earth to revolve around
the moon.
19. How long does the Earth take to make one C. the time it takes for the earth to revolve
rotation? around the sun.
D. the time it takes for the moon to revolve
A. one day around the earth.
B. one year
C. one month 27. The Earth spins on its axis. What does the
D. one week term axis mean?

20. A small rock in space is called a . A. A metal bar that connects the north and
south pole.
A. meteor B. The path that the Earth takes as it revolves
around the Sun.
B. nebula
C. An imaginary line around the middle of the
C. comet
Earth.
D. meteoroid D. An imaginary line which runs through the
center of the Earth.
21. One complete revolution of Earth around
28. What keeps the planets in orbit around the
the sun is called a
sun?
A. day.
A. the sun's heat
B. night.
B. the sun's mass
C. month.
C. the planet's revolution
D. year.
D. the planet's gravity

22. The Milky Way Galaxy is one 29. The order of the inner planets outward from
of in the known universe. the Sun is .
A. hundreds
A. Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars
B. thousands
B. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
C. millions
D. billions C. Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury
D. Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury
23. The tilt of the Earth causes what?
30. Which of the following objects is capable
A. tides of producing its own light?
B. day and night A. the sun
C. seasons B. our moon
D. gravity C. the earth
D. a planet