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The Ultimate Earth & Space Quiz

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the names of all the planets in the Solar System?

a)

Earth, Mars, Saturn, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, The Moon, Uranus and the Sun

b)

Just Earth

2.

How were the different stars and planets formed?

a)

The Big Bang

b)

The Big Rip

c)

The Big Crunch

3.

What is the scientific name for the Solar System?

a)

The Universe

b)

Space

4.

What was Earth called before all the land masses broke apart?

a)

Pangaea

b)

Earth

5.

What was Pangaea?

a)

The supercontinent before Earth was colonised

b)

A long dead planet

6.

What is the biggest star in the Solar System?

a)

The Sun

b)

Proxima Centauri B

7.

What will happen in 1 billion years?

a)

The Sun will reach it’s maximum radius and the Greenhouse Effect starts. Earth’s oceans evaporate, only liquid water exists at the poles, that means they might be the last bastion of life on our planet.

b)

An airlock starts

8.

What will happen in 5 billion years?

a)

The Sun will evolve into a Red Giant.

b)

The Sun will melt

9.

When the Greenhouse Effect starts, what will be the Earth’s temperature?

a)

147oC 117oF

b)

100oC 971oF

10.

What will happen to the Sun?

a)

It will destroy Venus, Mercury and possibly Earth, before swallowing them.

b)

It melts every planet in the Solar System. The End.

11.

What will happen in 8 billion years?

a)

The Sun will collapse into a White Dwarf star before going into a black dwarf over time.

b)

Everything will shatter into a million pieces.

12.

What will happen in 100 trillion years?

a)

All the stars will die.

b)

The Universe is dead.

13.

What is the name of an explosion when a star dies?

a)

Supernova

b)

Hypernova

14.

What is a Hypernova?

a)

A more powerful version of a Supernova

b)

A small explosion

15.

What is the difference between a Supernova and a Hypernova?

a)

A Supernova is a big explosion of a star when it dies. A Hypernova is the more powerful version. It relates to a massive explosion that results in a Gamma Ray Burst.

b)

Don’t know.

16.

Finally, what will happen in quintillions and quintillions of years into our travel forward in time?

a)

The Universe will die, but soon after, there might be another Big Bang. The same way the Universe started, and the way it will supposedly be born again. New life will flood the new Universe in this new...big...BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

b)

The Solar System will die, and nothing will exist again.