Quiz about Astronomy Review

Question 1

What Moon Phase is occurring at position 1?

Accepted Answer

New Moon

Answer

Full Moon

Answer

Waning Gibbous

Answer

Waxing Gibbous

Question 2

What Moon Phase is occurring at position 6?

Accepted Answer

Waning Gibbous

Answer

Full Moon

Answer

New Moon

Answer

Waxing Gibbous

Question 3

What Moon Phase is occurring at position 3?

Accepted Answer

First Quarter

Answer

Last (Third) Quarter

Answer

Waning Crescent

Answer

Waxing Crescent

Question 4

What Moon Phase is occurring at position 8?

Accepted Answer

Waning Crescent

Answer

First Quarter

Answer

Last (Third) Quarter

Answer

Waxing Crescent

Question 5

What Moon Phase is occurring at position 2?

Accepted Answer

Waxing Crescent

Answer

First Quarter

Answer

Last (Third) Quarter

Answer

Waning Crescent

Question 6

Sometimes the moon looks like a crescent. At other times, the moon looks like a half circle. What makes it possible for you to see the surface of the moon from Earth?

Accepted Answer

Light from the sun is reflected by the moon's surface.

Answer

The moon gives off its own light.

Answer

Light from Earth is reflected by the moon's surface.

Answer

The moon absorbs sunlight during the day and glows at night.

Question 7

How many phases does the moon go through?

Accepted Answer

8

Answer

4

Answer

10

Answer

16

Question 8

As the moon's shape appears to get smaller, we say that the moon is _.

Accepted Answer

waning

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swelling

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waxing

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disappearing

Question 9

Phases of the moon in which the moon appears to be getting larger are referred to as _.

Accepted Answer

waxing

Answer

waning

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new

Answer

eclipse

Question 10

The cycle of the moon lasts about a _.

Accepted Answer

month

Answer

day

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year

Answer

week

Question 11

True or False: The moon does not produce its own light.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 12

What happens right after the full moon phase?

Accepted Answer

The moon goes through its phases in the reverse order

Answer

The moon becomes new

Answer

The moon seems to disappear in the sky

Answer

The moon starts to wax

Question 13

What Moon Phase is shown?

Accepted Answer

Full Moon

Answer

New Moon

Answer

First Quarter

Answer

Third Quarter

Question 14

What Moon Phase is shown?

Accepted Answer

New Moon

Answer

Full Moon

Answer

First Quarter

Answer

Third Quarter

Question 15

What Moon Phase is shown?

Accepted Answer

First Quarter

Answer

New Moon

Answer

Full Moon

Answer

Third Quarter

Question 16

What Moon Phase is shown?

Accepted Answer

Third Quarter

Answer

New Moon

Answer

Full Moon

Answer

First Quarter

Question 17

What Moon Phase is shown?

Accepted Answer

Waxing Crescent

Answer

Waxing Gibbous

Answer

Waning Crescent

Answer

Waning Gibbous

Question 18

What Moon Phase is shown?

Accepted Answer

Waxing Gibbous

Answer

Waxing Crescent

Answer

Waning Crescent

Answer

Waning Gibbous

Question 19

What Moon Phase is shown?

Accepted Answer

Waning Crescent

Answer

Waxing Crescent

Answer

Waxing Gibbous

Answer

Waning Gibbous

Question 20

What Moon Phase is shown?

Accepted Answer

Waning Gibbous

Answer

Waxing Crescent

Answer

Waxing Gibbous

Answer

Waning Crescent

Question 21

What moon phase comes AFTER a New Moon?

Accepted Answer

Waxing Crescent

Answer

First Quarter

Answer

Waxing Gibbous

Answer

Full Moon

Question 22

A large round pit caused by the impact of a meteoroid

Accepted Answer

Crater

Answer

Meteoroid

Answer

Maria

Answer

Tide

Question 23

Densely pitted, light-colored areas on the moon are called ____________.

Accepted Answer

Highlands

Answer

Craters

Answer

Maria

Answer

Crescents

Question 24

The highest mountain on the moon is only 1km less in height than Mt. Everest. What region of the moon can mountains be found?

Accepted Answer

Highlands

Answer

Craters

Answer

Maria

Answer

All over

Question 25

True or false: There can be craters within craters on the moon.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 26

______________ are regions of dark, smooth, ancient beds of basaltic lava.

Accepted Answer

Maria

Answer

Highlands

Answer

Craters

Answer

Meteorites

Question 27

How did the lunar mare (maria) form?

Accepted Answer

Asteroids punctured the lunar surface, causing magma to bleed out

Answer

Asteroids punctured the lunar surface, causing rock to break apart

Answer

They were ancient oceans

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They were ancient beds of ice

Question 28

How do most craters on the moon form?

Accepted Answer

Rapidly moving debris hit the surface

Answer

Collision with other planets

Answer

The sun burns holes in the moon

Question 29

Ancient solidified lava channels on the Moon's surface are called ___.

Accepted Answer

rilles

Answer

maria

Answer

canals

Answer

scarps

Question 30

Bombardment by huge meteorites and asteroids created the dark areas or ___ that we see today.

Accepted Answer

maria

Answer

rilles

Answer

craters

Answer

crustal thickness

Question 31

What are impact craters on the moon?

Accepted Answer

Depressions or cavities formed by collisions with meteoroids, asteroids, or comets

Answer

Formed by the movement of tectonic plates on the moon

Answer

Volcanic eruptions on the moon's surface

Answer

Result of underground explosions

Question 32

What are lunar highlands and maria?

Accepted Answer

Highlands and Maria are different types of terrains on the moon.

Answer

Lunar highlands and maria are famous landmarks on Earth

Answer

Lunar highlands and maria are types of food

Answer

Lunar highlands and maria are types of weather patterns

Question 33

What causes the dark areas on the moon known as maria?

Accepted Answer

Ancient volcanic eruptions

Answer

Giant space worms

Answer

Cosmic graffiti

Answer

Alien footprints

Question 34

What is the name of the dark spot on the moon that is visible from Earth?

Accepted Answer

Mare or Maria

Answer

Lunar crater

Answer

Moon valley

Answer

Asteroid impact site

Question 35

What is the term for the bright areas on the moon's surface?

Accepted Answer

Lunar highlands

Answer

Mare or Maria

Answer

Impact craters

Answer

Lunar valleys

Question 36

What is the term for the dark, flat plains on the moon's surface?

Accepted Answer

Mare or Maria

Answer

Lunar valleys

Answer

Impact craters

Answer

Lunar highlands

Question 37

Objects that pulverized and crushed the moon's surface over billions of years left a dusty surface known as ____________.

Accepted Answer

regolith

Answer

maria

Answer

highlands

Answer

volcanoes

Question 38

Highlands are

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Answer

located on the far side of the moon

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mountains

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almost as tall as Mount Everest

Question 39

Earth is furthest from the moon during

Accepted Answer

apogee

Answer

rotation

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perigee

Answer

revolution

Question 40

Which astronomer of antiquity first applied a telescope to astronomical observation?

Accepted Answer

Galileo Galilei

Answer

Ptolemy

Answer

Tycho Brahe

Answer

Copernicus

Question 41

The first model of the universe was geocentric. What does that mean?

Accepted Answer

Earth is the center.

Answer

Sun is the center.

Question 42

The place where a planet is closest to the Sun as it orbits the Sun is called the

Accepted Answer

perihelion

Answer

aphelion

Question 43

The place where a planet is farthest away from the Sun in its orbit around the Sun is called the

Accepted Answer

aphelion

Answer

perihelion

Question 44

Ancient Greeks believed, the earth to be the centr of the universe. What do we call this model?

Accepted Answer

Geocentric Universe

Answer

Ptolemic System

Answer

Heliocentric Universe

Answer

Copernican Model

Question 45

What does the Heliocentric system look like?

Accepted Answer

Option D is correct

Answer

A.

Answer

B.

Answer

C.

Question 46

The ancient Greek who proposed a geocentric model of the universe is

Accepted Answer

Ptolomy

Answer

Galileo

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Copernicus

Answer

Kepler

Question 47

What planet is closest to the sun?

Accepted Answer

Mercury

Answer

Mars

Answer

Jupiter

Question 48

What are the four inner planets?

Accepted Answer

Mars, Earth , Mercury, Venus

Answer

Earth, Uranus, Mercury, Venus

Answer

Mercury Venus Earth Saturn

Question 49

Which planet below is farthest from the sun?

Accepted Answer

Jupiter

Answer

Mars

Answer

Earth

Question 50

What are the outer planets?

Accepted Answer

Uranus, Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter

Answer

Jupiter, Saturn, Earth, Neptune

Answer

Saturn, Neptune, Mars, Uranus

Question 51

The outer planets are considered the Gas Planets

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 52

The Inner Planets are rocky and have craters on the surface

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 53

What is the name of the only planet that supports life?

Accepted Answer

Earth

Answer

Jupiter

Answer

Uranus

Question 54

The Planets do not rotate around the sun.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 55

Which planet is known as the Red Planet because of it's red rocky surface?

Accepted Answer

Mars

Answer

Earth

Answer

Jupiter

Question 56

Second hottest planet

Accepted Answer

Mercury

Answer

Venus

Answer

Earth

Answer

Mars

Question 57

rotates in opposite direction of other planets

Accepted Answer

Venus

Answer

Mercury

Answer

Earth

Answer

Mars

Question 58

fourth planet from Sun

Accepted Answer

Mars

Answer

Mercury

Answer

Venus

Answer

Earth

Question 59

only planet not named after a god

Accepted Answer

Earth

Answer

Mercury

Answer

Venus

Answer

Mars

Question 60

only one natural satellite

Accepted Answer

Earth

Answer

Mercury

Answer

Venus

Answer

Mars

Question 61

home to the tallest mountain

Accepted Answer

Mars

Answer

Mercury

Answer

Venus

Answer

Earth

Question 62

This planet has the longest year

Accepted Answer

Neptune

Answer

Mercury

Answer

Jupiter

Answer

Venus

Question 63

This planet has the shortest year

Accepted Answer

Mercury

Answer

Jupiter

Answer

Neptune

Answer

Venus

Question 64

This planet has the longest day

Accepted Answer

Venus

Answer

Mercury

Answer

Jupiter

Answer

Neptune

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