Science Test 12/16/2015

Question 1

What is the largest moon in the solar system?

Answer 1

2. Ganymede

Question 2

What is the herthsprung? (Russle diagram)

Answer 2

3. Two dimensional graphs that compares stars by their temperature and brightness

Question 3

The summer triangle is formed by _______, _______, _______.

Answer 3

4. Deneb, Vega, Altair.

Question 4

During what phase is the full parts of the moon shown?

Answer 4

5. Full Moon

Question 5

The orbits of planets are symmetrical ovals called ________.

Answer 5

6. Ellipse.

Question 6

Frozen chunks of ice, rock, dust rotate around the sun are called _______.

Answer 6

7. Comets

Question 7

The explosion of a star is called ________.

Answer 7

8. Supernova

Question 8

The convection cells that cover the sun’s visible surface are called _______.

Answer 8

9. Granules

Question 9

What are the flame like columns of gas that continually erupt from the lowest layer of the sun’s atmosphere?

Answer 9

10. Spicules

Question 10

What is the visible portion of the sun?

Answer 10

11. Photosphere

Question 11

What galaxy shape is the Milky Way?

Answer 11

12. Spiral

Question 12

Label each constellation by its corresponding number

Answer 12

13. Cassiopeia
14. Taurus
15. Ursa Major
16. Orion
17. Cygnus

Question 13

What unit of measurement is approximately equal to the distance between the sun and the earth?

Answer 13

18. Astronomical Unit

Question 14

Describe Venus’s background rotation on its axis.

Answer 14

19. Retrograde

Question 15

Name for the period of time that the moon takes to orbit the earth.

Answer 15

20. Lunar Moon

Question 16

Imaginary sphere with the center and the heavenly bodies on it’s inner surface.

Answer 16

21. Celestial Sphere

Question 17

Imaginary “band” in the sky in which the sun, moon and planets travel.

Answer 17

22. Zodiac

Question 18

What is the two planets between which the astroid belt is located?

Answer 18

23. Mars

24. Jupiter

Question 19

An object that orbits another object is called ________.

Answer 19

25. Satellite

Question 20

Describe a star that is always above the horizon to an observer at a particular location.

Answer 20

26. Circumpolar

Question 21

What group of small icy objects orbit the sun outside the orbit of the outer most planet?

Answer 21

27. Kuiper belt

Question 22

The observed brightness that a star would have to and observer located 10 parses away is the ________ magnitude.

Answer 22

28. Absolute

Question 23

What is the cloud of gas and dust that surrounds the center of a comet?

Answer 23

29. Coma

Question 24

Who developed the law of universal gravitation?

Answer 24

30. Sir Isaac Newton

Question 25

What is a rapidly rotating star that emits directional beams of radio waves?

Answer 25

31. Pulsar

Question 26

What Latin word is used to refer to lunar "seas"?

Answer 26

32. Mare

Question 27

Which scientific law states the relationship between a planet's period and average distance from the sun?

Answer 27

33. The third law of the planetary motion.

Question 28

What is the apparent change in the position of an object caused by an actual change in the position of the Observer?

Answer 28

34. Parallax

Question 29

What is the largest galaxy in the local group?

Answer 29

35. Andromeda Galaxy

Question 30

Which category of stars includes the sun?

Answer 30

36. Main sequence

Question 31

Which planet do the Trojan astroids share an orbit?

Answer 31

37. Jupiter

Question 32

What is an object so massive and dense that not even light can escape its gravity?

Answer 32

38. Black Hole

Question 33

What is the largest planet in our solar system?

Answer 33

39. Jupiter

Question 34

Which planet is known for its ring system?

Answer 34

40. Saturn

Question 35

The outermost planet in our solar system is ________.

Answer 35

41. Neptune

Question 36

The fastest moving planet is _______.

Answer 36

42. Mercury

Question 37

The planets sometimes called the morning star and the evening star is _______.

Answer 37

43. Venus

Question 38

A gas giant that seems to lie on its side is _______.

Answer 38

44. Uranus

Question 39

What planet is notable for its Olympus Mons?

Answer 39

45. Mars

Question 40

The planets closest approach to the sun is perihelion.

Answer 40

46. True

Question 41

The idea that the earth is at the center of the universe and that the sun, planets and stars all revolves around the earth is the Heliocentric view.

Answer 41

47. (False) Geocentric view

Question 42

A small rock in space that is burning up as it passes through earth's atmosphere is an asteroid.

Answer 42

48. (False) Meteor

Question 43

A large cloud of gas and dust in space is called a nebula.

Answer 43

49. True

Question 44

The phenomenon in which the moon passes between the earth and the sun is called a lunar eclipse.

Answer 44

50. (False) Solar Eclipse

Question 45

The study of God's creation beyond the atmosphere is Astrology.

Answer 45

51. (False) Astronomy

Question 46

A small group of stars that is used to form a picture or represent an object is an asterism.

Answer 46

52. True

Question 47

Star-Vega is part of the ______ constellation.

Answer 47

53. Lyra

Question 48

Star-Sirius is part of the _____ ______ constellation.

Answer 48

54. Canis Major

Question 49

Star-Spica is apart of the ______ constellation

Answer 49

55. Virgo

Question 50

Star-Aldebaran is part of the _____ constellation.

Answer 50

56. Taurus

Question 51

Star-Castor is part of the ________ constellation.

Answer 51

57. Gemini

Question 52

Star-Polaris is part of the _____ _____ constellation.

Answer 52

58. Ursa Minor

Question 53

Star-Betelgeuse is part of the ______ constellation.

Answer 53

59. Orion

Question 54

Star-Regulus is part of the _____ constellation.

Answer 54

60. Leo

Question 55

⭐️Compare and contrast binary stars, open clusters, global clusters.

Answer 55

61.

Question 56

What are Mars two moons?

Answer 56

1. Phobos and Daimos.