ES - Year End (Old SMS Astronomy Test)

1. What is not part of our solar system?

• Comets and Asteroids

• The Milky Way

• Jupiter

• The Sun

2. The universe is believed to have began with

• the Big Bang

• the Milky Way Expansion

• a wormhole

• galactic lensing

3. What year did man first land on the moon?

• 1969

• 1965

• 1971

• 1958

4. A gas and dust cloud which forms stars is a

• solar nebula

• supernova

• pulsar

• quasar

5. The Gas Giants are composed mainly of

• hydrogen and helium

• rock and oxygen

• nitrogen and oxygen

• methane and helium

6. What planet is red due to iron oxide?

• Mercury

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Saturn

7. A star moving away from the Earth has a spectrum that is ______________.

• losing its color.

• shifted toward the red end of the spectrum.

• shifted toward the blue end of the spectrum.

• unchanged.

8. During the main sequence stage of a star, how is energy generated in the core?

• Hydrogen fuses into Helium

• Helium fuses into Hydrogen

• Carbon fuses into Hydrogen

• Nitrogen fuses into Oxygen

9. By analyzing the light that a star emits, astronomers can determine ____________.

• the circumference of a star

• the composition and temperature of a star

• the size and weight of a star.

• the galaxy that the star belongs too.

10. What does the red shift of galaxies support?

• the Big Bang Theory

• Universal Contraction

• development of black holes

• development of quasars