What planets are bigger than Mercury?
a. Venus
b. Mars
c. Pluto
d. Neptune
What are all of the above
100
We can travel at the speed of sound
What is True
100
How long does it take for light from the Sun to reach Earth
What is 8 minutes 40 seconds (est.)
100
What is a very large star and bright star with a low surface temperature. Is thought to be in a late stage of star evolution
What is a Red Giant
200
What is the 1st planet in the solar system?
a. Neptune
b. Saturn
c. Earth
d. Mercury
What is Mercury
200
What planets have rings?
a. Saturn
b. Jupiter
c. Earth
d. Uranus
What are Saturn, Jupiter, and Uranus
200
Proxima Centauri is the closest galaxy to our solar system
What is FALSE (it is a sun)
200
How many days does it take the earth to travel around the sun?
What is 365
200
It is what stars like our Sun become after they have exhausted their nuclear fuel.
What is a White Dwarf
300
What is the second planet from the sun?
a. Mercury
b. Venus
c. Earth
d. Mars
What is Venus
300
What is a constellation?
What is a group of stars
300
Pluto is the last planet in the solar system.
False (dwarf planet) (Does not clear its orbit)
300
Which sort of star is the Sun
What is Main Sequence
300
What are clouds of interstellar matter
What is a nebulae
400
It takes the Sun 225-250 million years to do one revolution of the Milky Way Galaxy. How fast does the Sun travel?
a) 220km in a second
b) 220km in an minute
c) 220 km in a hour
d) 220km in a year
What is (a) 220km/s
400
Who was not the first person to claim that the Earth rotates around the Sun?
Who is Copernicus
400
Mars is known as the “Blue Planet”.
What is FALSE
400
What is the solar system?
What is the collection of eight planets and their moons in orbit around the sun, together with smaller bodies in the form of asteroids, meteoroids, and comets
400
Earth's galaxy can be described as a ____________ galaxy
What is a spiral galaxy
500
Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
a. Amelia Earheart
b. Neil Armstrong
c. Barack Obama
d. Buzz Aldrin
What is Neil Armstrong
500
The only spacecraft that has explored all of the giant planets in our solar system.
What is Voyager 2
500
The sun produces energy using nuclear fission
What is False (fusion)
500
What year did he/she walk on the moon?
a. 1962
b. 1964
c. 1967
d. 1969
What is 1969
500
What is the name given to the event that formed the Universe?