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Astronomy: General Space Trivia
Astronomy: General Space Trivia
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An #Astronomy Quiz for kids grades 1-6
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How many dwarf planets (including Pluto) do we have in our solar system?
2
4
5
3
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How can you tell the difference between a star and a planet when you look up at night?
Stars will blind you
Planets twinkle stars don't
Stars twinkle planets don't
Planets look white
3
The edge of the solar system is how distant from the most distant planet Neptune?
50 times more distant
100 times more distant
10 times more distant
1,000 times more distant
4
The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is actually a what?
A liquid surface that seems more solid than gas
A defect in the planets athmosphere
200 to 300 year old mega storm of toxic gasses
A calm 'eye of the storm' as the whole planet is the storm
5
The Milky Way is an average sized spiral galaxy. How many others are though to exist?
100 Trillion galaxies
100 Billion galaxies
Unknown
500 Billion galaxies
6
Over the course of a night and over a full year the stars are divided up into 12 what?
Constitutions
Constellations
Condemnations
Configurations
7
One of those former rogue asteroid was captured as one of the two moons of Mars, name it?
Deimos
Ceres
Eris
Phobos
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Nebula are a unique & beautiful features, formed by what?
An interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium &other gases
A dying star
Black Holes
A cloud of hydrogen, oxygen and electrified partials
9
The Speed of Light is measured in Miles Per Second, How fast is it anyway?
55,888 MPS
186,282 MPS
999,999 MPS
6,006,055 MPS
10
One of the most striking features of our solar system is the asteroid belt where is it located?
Between Earth & Mars
Between Saturn & Neptune
Between Mars & Jupiter
Between Jupiter & Saturn
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Comets are balls of ice & rock roaming vast regions of space, when passing a star they do what?
A magnified shot of how the comet really looks
Leave a tail of gas and dust
Get a little sweaty & partialy melt
Leave a ball of gas
12
In 1888 Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming photographed this, 1500 light years from Earth.
Dragon Nebula
Cobra Nebula
Sea Horse Nebula
Horse Head Nebula
13
The most abundant element in the solar system is what?
Uranium
Helium
Hydrogen
Oxygen
14
Long strings of burning plasma extending out from the sun's surface are called what?
A Ribbon
A Prominence
A Wing
An Arm
15
Meteorites are pieces of comets, asteroids or meteors How many (10 gr+) fall to Earth per year?
18,000 to 84,000
1 to 700
700 to 9,500
9,500 to 18,000
16
The First Exoplanet visible from Earth was Fomalhaut B, discovered in what year?
2008
2000
2009
2010
17
Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. How many Pluto's would fit inside the Earth?
500
170
66
22
18
This amazing nebula was discovered by William Herschel in 1786, can you name it?
Wreath Nebula
Cat's Eye Nebula
Cyclops Nebula
Eyeball Nebula
19
The Moon lacks gravity & atmosphere so this Apollo footprint will be perfectly preserved for?
100 Million years
10 Million years
10 to 100 thousand years
500 thousand years
20
The formation of this nebula was observed by both the Chinese & Arab astronomers in 1054 A. D.
Coral Nebula
Ruffled Nebula
Crab Nebula
Jellyfish Nebula
21
All of the following are true about being in space except which one?
It is a vacuum so you'd implode with a space suit
You never feel sick to your stomach because - no gravity
The is no noise in space
Fires couldn't burn in space,lacking oxygen to burn Mr Lucas
22
If you somehow got too close to a black hole what would likely happen to you?
Imploded
Suffocated
Stretched & spaghetti-fied into a long thin strand
Smashed into a little ball
23
The sun is how many times bigger than the Earth?
23,454 times larger
1,778,009 times larger
1,202,020 times larger
330,330 times larger
24
How many planets are in our solar system?
7
8
9
10
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We can only detect 5% of the matter that exists 3 of these are possible causes, which 1 is not?
Dark Energy
Dark Matter
Spongy Matter
Black Holes
