Final Exam

There are ________ planets in the Solar System.

• 6.

• 8.

• 12.

• 20.

• 63.

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Put the planets in order!

• Earth

• Venus

• Jupiter

• Mercury

• Mars

Put the planets in order!

• Mars

• Neptune

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Uranus

Put our cosmic address in order!

• Solar System

• Local Group

• Virgo Supercluster

• Laniakea Supercluster

• Milky Way Galaxy

Our galaxy and the few dozen nearest galaxies are known as the

• Solar System.

• Milky Way.

• Local Group.

• Virgo Supercluster.

• Laniakea Supercluster.

When a change occurs on the surface of the Sun, how long does it take before astronomers on Earth can see the change?

• 8 minutes

• 11 hours

• 1 second

• 1 day

• It reaches us instantaneously.

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A light-year is a unit commonly used in astronomy as a measure of

• time.

• speed.

• mass.

• distance.

• acceleration.

The first event in the history of the universe is called the

• Cosmological Principle.

• Scientific Revolution.

• Virgo Supercluster.

• Big Bang.

• None of these is correct, as the universe had no beginning.

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The apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of a year is called the

• prime meridian.

• ecliptic.

• circumpolar plane.

• celestial equator.

• eclipse.

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The point on the sky directly above an observer is called the

• meridian.

• celestial pole.

• nadir.

• circumpolar plane.

• zenith.