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Space quizz

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the black hole

a)

Where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape from it

b)

A hole in space

c)

A planet

d)

A dwarf planet

2.

What is the milkiway

a)

A galaxy in our solar system

b)

A way made out of milk

c)

None of the above

3.

What is a white dwarf

a)

A stellar core

b)

A dwarf planet

c)

A way

d)

A galaxy

4.

What is a brown dwarf

a)

A substellar object

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

5.

What is a red giant

a)

A giant luminous star

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

6.

What is the red dwarf

a)

A small and cool kind of star

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

7.

What is a protostar

a)

A young star

b)

A stellar object

c)

A stellar core

d)

None of the above

8.

What is an exoplanet

a)

A plant found in outer space

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

9.

What is a planet

a)

An astronomical body orbiting a star

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

none of the above

10.

What is a star

a)

An astronomical object consisting of luminous spheroid

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

11.

What is a galaxy

a)

A gravitational bound system of stars

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

no of the above

12.

What is a nebula

a)

A nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases

b)

A stellar core

c)

a stellar object

d)

all of the above

13.

What is a comet

a)

A comet is an icy, small Solar System body.

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

14.

What is a super giant star

a)

Supergiants are among the most massive and most luminous stars. Supergiant stars occupy the top region of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram with absolute visual magnitudes.

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

15.

What is a asteroid

a)

Asteroids are minor planets, especially of the inner Solar System. Larger asteroids have also been called planetoids.

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

16.

What is a Polaris

a)

Polaris, designated α Ursae Minoris, commonly the North Star or Pole Star, is the brightest star in the constellation of Ursa Minor.

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

17.

What is a meteoroid

a)

A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to one-meter-wide objects.

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

18.

What is a natural satellite

a)

A natural satellite, or moon, is, in the most common usage, an astronomical body that orbits a planet or minor planet.

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

19.

What is a pulsar

a)

A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating compact star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles.

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

One of the above

20.

What is a quasar

a)

A quasar is an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

21.

What is a neutron star

a)

A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive supergiant star

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

22.

What is a main sequence

a)

In astronomy, the main sequence is a continuous and distinctive band of stars that appears on plots of stellar color versus brightness.

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

23.

what is a giant star

a)

A giant star is a star with substantially larger radius and luminosity than a main-sequence star of the same surface temperature.

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

24.

What is a dwarf planet

a)

dwarf planet is a planetary-mass object that does not dominate its region of space and is not a satellite.

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

25.

What is a variable star

a)

A variable star is a star whose brightness as seen from Earth fluctuates.

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above

26.

What is a star cluster

a)

Star clusters are large groups of stars. Two types of star clusters can be distinguished: globular clusters are tight groups of hundreds to millions of old stars which are gravitationally bound.

b)

A stellar core

c)

A stellar object

d)

None of the above