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WorksheetsAstronomy - Chapter 4 - 6 - Focus on Middle School
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 21mins
What is the sun made of?
Helium
Hydrogen
Halogen
Neon
Methane
What is the moon made of?
basaltic rocks
breccia
granite
chalk
cheese and milk
How hot does the sun get in Fahrenheit?
5800
7980
9900
1,000,000
True or False: The Moon has no atmosphere.
True
False
What is the highest temperature the moon gets?
9900 F
173 F
240 F
700 F
What is the lowest temperature that the moon gets?
-9900 F
-173 F
-240 F
-700 F
Is the moon made of crust, mantle and core?
Yes
No
What equation explains why the sun makes energy?
E=mc^2
M=ec^2
C=em^3
E=mc^3
Name the planets in our solar system in order.
(a)
Name the terrestrial planets in our solar system in order.
(a)
Name the Jovian planets in order.
(a)
How many Earth years does it take Saturn to orbit the sun?
29
14
19
39
3
What is the Great Red Spot on Jupiter?
A storm
A mountain
A volcano
A whirlpool
What is the Great Dark Spot?
A storm on Jupiter.
A storm on Uranus
A storm on Pluto
A storm on Neptune.
What do celestial clocks measure?
Movements of celestial bodies and time
Movement of celebrities
The size fluctuations of observable stars.
The pulse time of quasars.
What is the difference between sidereal time and solar time?
Sidereal time measures the earth relative to the stars instead of relative to the sun as in solar time.
Sidereal time measures the earth relative to the side of the sun instead of the center of the sun as in solar time.
Sidereal time measured time as if the earth was the center of the solar system. Solar time measures time with the sun being the center of the solar system.
Sidereal time is just some word your teacher made up to trick you and solar time is just time.
What does a sundial measure?
the sun's position in the sky
apparent solar time
the time it takes the sun to move across the sky
the movement of solar flares on the sun's surface
the sun's phone number
What Friederich Argelander publish?
(a)
What is mapping the stars called?
(a)
