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What is a Meteroite ?
What is a Moon ?
Solar System Test
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What is a Moon ?
Orbits the Sun
Orbit Planets
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What is a Meteroite ?
Are meteors that are large or strong enough to make it grou.
Burn through the atmosphere of Uranus ( :
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How strong is Mars gravity ?
half as strong as Moon's gravity
half as strong as Earth's gravity
half as strong as the Sun's gravity
half as strong as a man pulling 2 2 ton trucks
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What is an Asteriod Belt ?
Is a belt that consists of hydrogen, helium, and methane
Is a belt of rocky material in between the orbit of Mars
Is a belt that consists of liquid magma
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What is the Photosphere ?
Arching colum of hot gas
Gives off light
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Which objects listed below should you not look at the sun through?
Your Eyes
Binoculars
Sun Glasses
Telescope
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What does Waning mean ?
Moon phases moving toward new. Can see less of the lit surfa
Moon phases moving toward full. Can see more of the lit sur.
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What is a Black Hole ?
Remant of a star much more massive than the Sun
A hole that is black that consists of gas and dust
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What is a Meteor ?
Craters
Are meteriods as the burn in the atmosphere
Small rocky left over pieces from comets or pu. asteriods
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What is a Neutron Star ?
Remant of a star much more massive than the Sun
Increases it's size to a Super Giant
A Nebula
How bright a star is
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What is the most giant planet in the Solar System?
Pluto
Neptune
Jupiter
Uranus
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What does Revolution mean ?
Spin on axis: Causes day and night on Earth
1 Revolution = 1 year, 365.25 days
Orbit around the Sun
24 Hours
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What is a Galaxy ?
Huge collection of Stars
Huge collection of Dust
Huge collection of stars, gas, and dust
Huge collection of Gas
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What is a Umbra ?
Darkest part of the shadow where there is a Total Solar Ecl.
Darkest part of the shadow where there is a Total Eclipse
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What is a Solar Eclipse ?
Sun, Moon, and Earth. Occurs during a New Moon
Sun, Earth, and Moon. Occurs during a New Moon
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What is a Prominence ?
Eruptions near a Sun Spot
Arching colum of gas
Cooler part of the Sun. 11 year cycle
17
Does Mercury have an atmosphere?
So
Maybe
No
Yes
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What is the shape of an orbit ?
Elliptical
Circle
Sphere
Oval
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What is the Kuiper Belt ?
Cloud of Comets
Belt of rocky material
Group of icy objects
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Uranus's atmosphere consists of ....................................
helium
hydrogen
methane
acid gas
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How many planets are there?
8
9
7
6
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What does Waxing mean ?
Moon phases moving toward new. Can see less of the lit surfa
Moon phases moving toward full. Can see more of the lit sur.
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_______ lighter shadow where there is a Partial Eclipse ?
Penumbra
Umbra
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Is Triton a Moon, Planet, The name of planet unknown, or the name of a star?
the name of a star
moon
the name of a planet unknown
Planet
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What are Constellations ?
A Sprial Galaxy
A pattern of Stars
A huge collection of stars, gas, and dust
Change throughout the year due to Earths Revolution
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What is a Meteriod ?
Are meteors that are large or strong enough to make it grou.
Small rocky left over pieces from comets or pu. asteriods
Small rocky left over pieces of igneous rock
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What is a Solar Flare ?
Arching colum of gas
Coolest part of the Sun. 11 year cycle
Eruptions near a Sun Spot
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What is a Lunar Eclipse ?
Sun, Earth, and Moon. Occurs during a New Moon
Sun, Earth, and Moon. Occurs during a Full Moon
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Neptune is a ..................................
very hot experience
very windy experience
very dark experience
very warm experience
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What is The Big Bang Theory ?
When The Milky Way was founded in 1659
A huge Oort Cloud of stars, gas, and dust
Started as a Nebula and then crashed into Uranus
Universe was created 13.7 Billion Years Ago
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What is The Milky Way ?
A spiral galaxy 100, 000 light years across space
A huge collection of stars, gas, and dust
A type of Chocolate
Takes the Sun 225 Million years to orbit
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What kind of core does Mercury have?
Dusty
Mantle
Metallic
Rocky
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What does Ellipse mean ?
Shape of an orbit including Earths
A complete orbit around the Sun
Shape of Earth
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Which is the smallest planet in our Solar System ?
Neptune
Saturn
Pluto
Jupiter
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What is the Chromosphere ?
Corona
Only seen during an Eclipse
Reddish orange layer of the Sun
Streaming part of the Sun
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What is a Planet ?
An object that orbits a star and is round
Orbits the Sun
Has a clean orbit
Orbits Planets
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What is the shape of the Earth ?
Sphere
Ellipse
Circle
Oval
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How many moons does Earth have ?
9
46
1
17
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Which planet is the "Jewel" of our Solar System?
Venus
Titan
Saturn
Uranus
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Saturn has .......................
95 times the mass as Pluto
95 times the mass as Uranus
95 times the mass as Jupiter
95 times the mass as Earth
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What is a Impact Crater ?
The depressions left behind by an object striking the Moon
Flat dark regions on the Moon that consist of Methane
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What does Venus' atmosphere consist of ?
thick yellow-white clouds of sulfuric acid gas
red hot magma
has an atmosphere like planet Earth
thick green-yellow clouds of sulfuric acid gas
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What year was Uranus discovered ?
1781
1987
When You Were Born
1699
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What is it called when stars live together in "Star Cities"?
Snickers
Galaxies
The Milky Way
Solar Eclipse
45
What is an Astronomical Unit ?
UB313-Sun distance
Moon-Sun distance
Uranus-Sun distance
Earth-Sun distance
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What is a Supernova ?
A theory that states that the Earth was created 13.7 million
An explosion caused by the collapse of the core
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How are Stars classified ?
Temperature
Size
Absolute Magnitude
Apparent Magnitude
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What is Absolute Magnitude ?
The actual brightness of a star
How bright a star is from the Sun from the Earth
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What is a Oort Cloud ?
A belt of rock and ice and methane
Group of icy rocks
Cloud of comets surrounding The Solar System
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When are Prominences actually visible?
During a Solar Eclipse
During a Blue Moon
During Explosions in Outer Space
During a Total Solar Eclipse
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What is a Solstice ?
Longest or shortest day of the year
Day when Earth's axis is tilted towards or away from the Sun
Occurs in December and June
Where the Sun is at it's highest or lowest point in the sky
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How long does it take for the Moon to rotate and revolve around the Sun ?
25.9
1 Leap Year
365.25
27.3
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IS THE SUN A PLANET ?
NO
YES
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What is a White Dwarf ?
Much more massive than the Sun. Brightest star in Space
A type of galaxie
Remant of a star much more massive than the Sun
Remant of a star with a mass that is = to or less the Sun
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What are the types of Galaxies ?
Sprial
Elliptical
Irregular
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What is Maria ?
Flat dark regions on the Moon filled with igneous rocks
The depressions left behind by an object striking the Moon
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What is Apparent Magnitude ?
How bright a star is from the Sun from the Earth
The actual brightness of a star
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If you were to land on Jupiter you would ...................
not "land" at all you would sink through it's atmosphere
die
swim through it like water
find the dead body of Galileo Galilei
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What is the brightest "Red Star"?
Mars
Jupiter
Sun
Pluto
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What is a Sun Spot ?
Coolest part of the Sun. 11 year cycle
Eruptions near a Sun Spot
Arching colum of gas
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What does Rotation mean ?
Shape of an orbit, including Earths
Orbit around the sun
Spin on axis: causes day and night on Earth
24 hours on Earth
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Which of the names below is a moon of Neptune ?
Titania
Triton
UB313
Titan
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What are the two most distant planets from the sun ?
Neptune & Pluto
Uranus & Pluto
Jupiter & Saturn
Titania & Pluto
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What makes the Sun unusual ?
Multiple Star System
Part of The Milky Way
It is by it's self
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How many % are Main Sequence Stars ?
1000 %
25 %
90 %
45 %
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How does the Sun produce energy ?
4 Hydrogen Atoms into one Helium Atom
Nuclear Fusion
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What is an Equinox ?
Occurs only in March and September
Day when Earth's axis is pointed neither towards/away Sun
12 hours of day and night all over Earth
Equal day and night
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Is there a life cycle of stars?
No
Yes
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Uranus doesn't get any warmer than .........................
-326 F
-999 F
-469 F
-344 F
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If you were to land on Pluto, you would find a .....................................
dark planet
frozen planet
lonely planet
frozen, lonely, & dark planet
