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Stars and the Universe

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a star?

a)

A burning ball of hot gas.

b)

A lightbulb.

c)

A luminous point of light in the night sky like the sun.

d)

A five pointed shape

2.

What is a black hole.

a)

A hole in space you can fall into.

b)

An area in space in which has such a large amount of gravity that not even light can not escape.

c)

A dead core of a star that has a large amount of gravity.

d)

An object in space you can not see.

3.

What is a supernova?

a)

A bomb.

b)

A blown up star.

c)

A large star that has ran out of fuel and has exploded.

d)

A small star that has blown up because it ran out of fuel.

4.

What is a Red Giant?

a)

A large, bright, cool star

b)

A small, bright, cool star

c)

A burnt out white dwarf star

d)

A young star that has just started the fusion of hydrogen

5.

Nuclear Fusion is...?

a)

A burnt out white dwarf star

b)

The combining of atomic nuclei

c)

A cloud of gas and dust

d)

A turkey

6.

Our sun is known as a middle-aged, stable star. Also known as a ____________________.

a)

Gas Giant

b)

Nebula

c)

Pulsar

d)

Main Sequence Star

7.

This type of star forms when a massive star collapses.

a)

Black Hole

b)

Protostar

c)

Neutron Star

d)

Pulsar

8.

What is a Pulsar?

a)

A collapsed star so dense that light does not escape its gravitational pull.

b)

A rapidly spinning neutron star which sends out pulses of radio waves.

c)

A heartbeat monitor

d)

A massive explosion.

9.

An explosion in which some of the outer layers of a very massive star are blown away

a)

Nebula

b)

Main Sequence

c)

Protostar

d)

Supernova

10.

A burnt out white dwarf star is known as a __________________.

a)

Main Sequence Star

b)

Black Dwarf

c)

Red Giant

d)

Protostar

11.
What kind of galaxy is this?
a)
Barred Spiral
b)
Irregular
c)
Peculiar
d)
Ring
12.
What kind of galaxy is this?
a)
Ring
b)
Irregular
c)
Spiral
d)
Elliptical 
13.
What kind of galaxy is this?
a)
Ring
b)
Irregular
c)
Spiral
d)
Elliptical 
14.
What kind of galaxy is this?
a)
Peculiar
b)
Active Galaxy: Quasar
c)
Spiral
d)
Elliptical 
15.
What type of galaxy do we live in?
a)
Spiral
b)
Elliptical
c)
Irregular
d)
Coaxial
16.
What kind of objects do we send into space because it's too far for us to go?
a)
satellite
b)
space probe
c)
telescope
d)
space shuttle
17.
What does the Big Bang theory suggest?
a)
The universe was just there
b)
The Milky Way is the only solar system
c)
The universe is continually expanding
d)
The universe started as a point and is moving towards each other
18.
What is the name of our galaxy?
a)
Milky way
b)
Miiky way
c)
Spiral
d)
Egg way
19.
True or False: The sun is much bigger than most of the stars in the sky.
a)
True 
b)
False
20.
How many stars are in an average sized galaxy?
a)
Hundreds
b)
Thousands
c)
Millions
d)
Billions
21.
How many galaxies are in the known universe?
a)
Hundreds
b)
Thousands
c)
Millions
d)
Billions
22.
At the center of most, if not all, galaxies is a _________. 
a)
Giant Sun
b)
Black Hole
c)
Big Bang
d)
White Dwarf
23.
Who discovered that our universe is made up of more than one galaxy?
a)
The Hubble Telescope
b)
Nicolaus Copernicus 
c)
Galileo Galilei
d)
Edwin Hubble