Earth Science Quiz

Question 1

The Suns Characteristics: Solar wind, Radio wave Flux, solar flares, mass ejections, coronal heating and sunspot's

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Are the phases in the picture in the right order?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

What is the definition of a Red Giant?

Accepted Answer

A dying star that has expanded to a large size with a red surface.

Question 4

what are some properties of a black hole?

Accepted Answer

Mass, charge, and angular momentum

Question 5

Are Halley's Comet and Comet shoemaker-levy 9 famous?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

What is the Sun's role in the Solar System?

Accepted Answer

Holding The solar system together with its gravitational pull, To help warm the earth and provide light

Question 7

Where are we located in the Milky way?

Accepted Answer

We are roughly halfway to the edge of the Milky way

Question 8

how many planets are there in the solar system?

Accepted Answer

8

Question 9

What is the definition of a nebula?

Accepted Answer

An enormous cloud of dust and gas occupying the space between stars.

Question 10

Whats the difference between comets and meteor's?

Accepted Answer

Comets are small icy dirt balls, while a meteor is a Space rock that burns

Question 11

What are Saturn's Moon's called

Accepted Answer

Titan, Enceladus, Mimas, and Dione

Question 12

What were some of the missions to planet's?

Accepted Answer

Galileo, Pioneer 10, Yoyager 1, and Mars express

Question 13

What are some noticeable asteroids in order?

Accepted Answer

Ceres, 4 Vesta, and 2 Pallas

Question 14

What are the types of galaxies?

Accepted Answer

Spiral, elliptical, and irregular

Question 15

What is the "Moon's Tide"?

Accepted Answer

A gravitational pull causing the oceans to bulge out on both sides.

Question 16

What is the Sun's composition? (what is the sun made out of?)

Accepted Answer

92.1% Hydrogen and 7.9% Helium

Question 17

What is the definition of a white dwarf star?

Accepted Answer

What stars like the sun become after they have exhausted their nuclear fuel

Question 18

What are some Very noticeable constellations?

Accepted Answer

Orion, Draco, Aries, Taurus, and Virgo

Question 19

What is the structure of our galaxy? (The Milky-way)

Accepted Answer

Large barred spiral Galaxy, with a relatively small bar compared to others

Question 20

What are some methods to detect these Exoplanets?

Accepted Answer

Radial velocity, Direct imaging, and gravitational microlensing

Question 21

What is the Suns diameter?

Accepted Answer

865,370 Mi

Question 22

Which is true about the apollo missions?

Accepted Answer

out of 11 total space flights, only seven landed people on the moon, The most notable Apollo missions were 8, 11, and 1

Question 23

What order do the planets in our solar system go in?

Accepted Answer

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

Question 24

Where is the asteroid belt located in the solar system and how far away is it from the sun?

Accepted Answer

Located between Mars and Jupiter, between 330 mil and 480 mil from the Sun

Question 25

what is the definition of a black hole?

Accepted Answer

A region of space having a gravitational field.

Question 26

What is the definition of a Protostar?

Accepted Answer

A very young star that is still gathering mass from its parent cloud.

Question 27

What are the some of the Galilean Moon's?

Accepted Answer

Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto

Question 28

What planets are terrestrial?

Accepted Answer

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mar's

Question 29

What are some Lunar features?

Accepted Answer

Mountains, Valleys, Craters, and Maria.

Question 30

Whats the definition of an Exoplanet?

Accepted Answer

A planet that orbits a star outside of the solar system

Question 31

What is a black holes formation? (How do they form?)

Accepted Answer

Black holes form when the center of a very big star collapses in on itself.

Question 32

What is the definition of a Supernova?

Accepted Answer

the colossal explosion of a star.

Earth Science Quiz

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Earth Science Quiz

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