Astronomy Final 2025

1. What is a star?

• A bright light in the sky that can move and twinkle
• A ball of gas in space that produces light and heat
• A planet that is very far away
• A rock floating in space that reflects sunlight

2. ____________ is a force pulling us towards the ground.

• Gravity
• Cavity
• Pulling
• Atmosphere

7. What does AU stand for? (We use it for measurement in space).

• Always Understanding
• Awesome Umbrellas
• Astronaut Universe
• Astronomical Unit

8. What is the Milky Way?

• A yummy chocolate candy
• A swirl in the sky
• The galaxy we are in
• How someone milks cows

9. What do you call the study of space?

• Astronomy
• Paleontology
• Spaceology
• Meteorology

10. The ______ is the only natural satellite orbiting the Earth.

• Sun
• Moon
• Constellations
• The International Space Station

11. Why does the sun look brighter than other stars?

• Because the sun is bigger
• Because the sun is heavier
• Because the sun is closer to us
• Because the sun is older

12. If two stars are the same size, but Star A is closer to us than Star B, which star will look brighter?

• Star A is less bright than star B
• Both stars look just as bright
• Star A looks brighter than star B
• It depends on when we look at the stars

13. What happens to a shadow's length during the day?

• It gets shorter around lunch time and longer in the morning and evening.
• The shadow stays the same length all day.
• It gets longer around lunchtime and shorter in the morning and evening.
• There's no pattern to how the shadow changes.

14. Why do some stars only show up in the night sky during certain months?

• The stars move to a different part of the sky
• The stars are sleeping
• Earth's position changes as it orbits around the sun

• The stars get too dim (less bright) to see