EES 28-31 Tanner Muovich

Question 0

2. What year was the telescope said to be invented?

A. 1600
B. 1759
C. 1925
D.1400

Answer 0

A. 1600

Question 1

1. What is the highest ray on the visible light scale?

A. Microwaves
B. Infrared waves
C. Gamma rays
D. X Rays

Answer 1

C. Gamma rays

Question 2

3. What is the maximum number of days a space shuttle mission lasts?

A. 20
B. 17
C. 31
D. 180

Answer 2

B. 17

Question 3

4. What was the first space mission to land on the Moon?

A. Lunar Prospector
B. Sputnik I
C. Apollo 13
D. Apollo 11

Answer 3

D. Apollo 11

Question 4

5. What is a good estimate of how old the moon is?

A. 2 million years old
B. 1 billion years old
C. 4 billion years old
D. 500 million years old

Answer 4

C. 4 billion years old

Question 5

6. Where is the Sun directly overhead in a summer solstice?

A. Equator
B. Tropic of Capricorn
C. Antarctic Circle
D. Tropic of Cancer

Answer 5

D. Tropic of Cancer

Question 6

7. Where is the sun directly overhead in the winter solstice?

A. Tropic of Capricorn
B. Tropic of Cancer
C. Equator
D. Antarctic Circle

Answer 6

A. Tropic of Capricorn

Question 7

8. What is the shape of an ellipse?

A. Square
B. Oval
C. Circle
D. Triangle

Answer 7

B. Oval

Question 8

9. How many classified planets are there in our solar system?

A. 10
B. 6
C. 9
D. 8

Answer 8

D. 8

Question 9

10. What is the only planet which can support all three states of water?

A. Earth
B. Venus
C. Mars
D. Uranus

Answer 9

A. Earth

Question 10

11. What is the biggest planet in our solar system?

A. Mercury
B. Earth
C. Saturn
D. Jupiter

Answer 10

D. Jupiter

Question 11

12. What is Saturn's major element in its atmosphere? 
A. Hydrogen
B. Oxygen
C. Carbon
D. Carbon dioxide

Answer 11

A. Hydrogen

Question 12

13. What gives Uranus the blue appearance from space? 
A. Water
B. Methane
C. Hydrogen
D. Helium

Answer 12

B. Methane

Question 13

14. What time period does the meteor Halley have between showings? 
A. 95 years
B. 150 years
C. 12 years 
D. 76 years

Answer 13

D. 76 years

Question 14

15. What contains 99% of the mass in the solar system? 
A. Earth
B. Jupiter
C. The Sun
D. Saturn

Answer 14

C. The Sun

Question 15

16. What is the most recognizable element in the Sun
A. Potassium
B. Hydrogen
C. Helium
D. Nickel

Answer 15

B. Hydrogen

Question 16

17. What percent of a stars mass is hydrogen? 
A. 100
B. 75
C. 73
D. 84

Answer 16

C. 73

Question 17

18. How many stars make up the Milky Way? 
A. 100 billion
B. 1 million
C. 10 million
D. 5 trillion

Answer 17

A. 100 billion

Question 18

19. How long is the Milky Way galaxy? 
A. 100 light years
B. 1,000,000 light years
C. 500,000 light years
D. 130,000 light years

Answer 18

D. 130,000 light years

Question 19

20. How many Earths would it take to line up equal with the Sun? 
A. 109
B. 277
C. 180
D. 567

Answer 19

A. 109

Question 20

21. What is the only one of the eight actual planets that spins in the opposite direction from the others?
A. Earth
B. Jupiter
C. Mars
D. Venus

Answer 20

D. Venus

Question 21

22. How many terrestrial planets are there?
A. 4
B. 6
C. 1 
D. 8

Answer 21

A. 4

Question 22

23. How many giant gas planets are there? 
A. 9
B. 4
C. 3
D. 6

Answer 22

B. 4

Question 23

24. What solstice is the one that causes the longest day of the year? 
A. Summer 
B. Winter
C. Autumnal
D. Vernal

Answer 23

A. Summer

Question 24

``` 25. What percent is the Moon's radius compared to Earth's? A. 50 B. 75 C. 73 D. 27 ```

Answer 24

D. 27