- What is the spinning on the Earth's axis called?
Your answer:
rotation
orbiting
positioning
revolution
- One complete circular orbit by the Earth around the Sun is called a
Your answer:
revolution
rotation
journey
motion
- The imaginary rod that stretches through Earth between the North and South poles is called the
Your answer:
equatator
axis
meteor
morning star
- What is a huge globe of hot gases that shines by its own light?
Your answer:
star
meteor
planet
constellation
- A group of stars that forms a pattern in the night sky is called a
Your answer:
season
wanderer
constellation
comet
- A large object that circles a star and does not produce light of its own is called a
Your answer:
planet
star
moon
meteorite
- Where is the Hubble Space Telescope positioned?
Your answer:
on the Moon
in orbit around the Earth
near Polaris
in orbit around the Sun
- A "shooting star" is actually a comet.
Your answer:
TrueFalse
- One of the Earth's revolutions takes about 24 hours.
Your answer:
TrueFalse
- Which type of telescope uses mirrors to magnify and focus light?
Your answer:
reflecting telescope
refracting telescope
- Which type of telescope uses lenses to magnify and focus light?
Your answer:
reflecting telescope
refracting telescope
- Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune together make up the
Your answer:
solar system
gas giants
outer planets
terrestrial planets
- Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars together are known as the
Your answer:
gas giants
terrestrial planets
outer planets
asteroid belt
- What is the Earth's natural statellite?
Your answer:
the moon
Voyager ll
the sun
the space shuttle
- A star and all the objects that revolve around it make up a
Your answer:
geocentric model
solar system
a belt of asteroids
gas giant
- What is at the center of the heliocentric model?
Your answer:
gas giants
Earth
Moon
Sun
- The planet with spectacular rings
Your answer:
Saturn
Mercury
Neptune
Mars
- The planet that most resembles Earth
Your answer:
Mars
Saturn
Mercury
Neptune
- The closet planet to the Sun
Your answer:
Neptune
Saturn
Mercury
Mars
- The largest planet
Your answer:
Venus
Uranus
Jupiter
Pluto
- The smallest planet
Your answer:
Pluto
Jupiter
Uranus
Venus
- A huge collection of stars is a
Your answer:
solar system
nebula
supernova
galaxy
- What includes absolutely everthing that exists?
Your answer:
galaxy
universe
solar system
supernova
- What is a tiny region in space where the gravitational attraction is so strong that nothing can escape it?
Your answer:
black hole
white dwarf
neutron star
black dwarf
- During the space flight, astronauts experience __________, which is a feeling that there is no gravity.
Your answer:
resistance to movement
gravity
heaviness
weightlessness
- What determines the color of a star?
Your answer:
its location
its age
its temperature
its sun
- What describes anything that comes from beyond Earth?
Your answer:
galaxy
extraterrestrial
universal
space
- What is the distance that light travels in a year?
Your answer:
a galaxy
a million kilometers
a light year
365 days
- The solar system belongs to a cluster of stars known as
Your answer:
Crab Nebula
Milky Way Galaxy
Magellanic Cloud
Hubble Galaxy
- What makes the Sun appear to rise in the east and set in the west?
Your answer:
Earth's revolution
Earth's gravity
Earth's atmosphere
Earth's rotation
- Earth's revolution around the Sun creates the seasons of the year.
Your answer:
TrueFalse
- Our solar system includes the Sun, nine planets, the moons that orbit those planets, and many smaller planets.
Your answer:
TrueFalse
- The Sun is a medium-sized yellow star.
Your answer:
TrueFalse
- The moon's revolution around the Earth takes about one month.
Your answer:
TrueFalse