Astronomy

Question 1

Is an Astronomical Unit the distance between the middle of the sun and the middle of the earth?

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What is a Light-Year?

Answer 2

Distance that light travels in one year

Question 3

Is a Parsec equal to 3.35 Light-Years?

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A ______ is a fuzzy patch in the sky.

Answer 4

Nebula

Question 5

Stars forming a pattern group that is recognizable ?

Answer 5

Constellation

Question 6

Planetesimal is?

Answer 6

small bodies that can form other plants

Question 7

Moon-sized planet embryos from discs that melt?

Answer 7

Protoplanetary

Question 8

A big explosion?

Answer 8

Nuclear Fusion

Question 9

What is are terrestrial planets?

Answer 9

Planets that have rocky surfaces like the earth or the 4 inner most planets in the solar system

Question 10

Giant _________ are filled with mostly gas?

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Define Comet?

Answer 11

An object that has gas, nucleus ice and and dust in it

Question 12

A smaller planet orbiting the sun

Answer 12

Asteroid

Question 13

A person who study and evaluates the universe

Answer 13

Cosmologist

Question 14

What is Angular Velocity?

Answer 14

It is the change in a rate in the position that is in an angular way .

Question 15

Is an Orbit a circular motion around the sun?

Answer 15

True

Question 16

A length of time is?

Answer 16

Period

Question 17

An orbit around something?

Answer 17

Revolve

Question 18

What is an rotation?

Answer 18

the path of a planet that it tuns around a complete body

Question 19

What is an solar day?

Answer 19

the time of successful transits of the meridian

Question 20

Is a Year 256 days?

Answer 20

False

Question 21

What is a Sidereal Day?

Answer 21

the time consecutive transits of the First Point of Aries