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ASTRONOMY QUIZ

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How Edwin Hubble get to know the universe is expanding? 

a)

The redshift of light from stars and galaxy

b)

The cosmic microwave background contour exponentially increases

c)

Hubble constant have changed

d)

The ever dropping temperature of universe

2.

Who discovered the Horsehead Nebula?

a)

John Bevis

b)

William Parsons

c)

James Edwin Webb

3.

What is an example of artificial satellite?

a)

Io moon

b)

Asteroid belt

c)

Hubble Space telescope

d)

Dyson sphere

4.

How to create perfect parabolic surface using liquid ?

a)

Spin the system that holds the liquid

b)

Increase pressure and temperature of liquid exponentially 

5.

What wavelengths is Aurora of Jupiter ?

a)

X Ray

b)

Microwave

c)

Gamma Ray

d)

Visible light

6.

What is the scientific term used for the twinkling of stars?

a)

Scintillation

b)

Mirage

c)

Refraction

d)

Asterism

7.

In which year was the exoplanet Kepler-452b discovered?

a)

2015

b)

2006

c)

2012

d)

1985

8.

If we cannot see light without it first hitting our retina directly, how light pollution is a problem?

a)

The particles in atmosphere scatters the light from urban light source to our eyes

b)

Greta Thunberg said so

c)

Light pollution doesn't exist at the first place

d)

the nature of quantum fluctuation of gas molecules towards photons

9.

Who first use telescope for astronomy?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Sir Isaac Newton

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

Carl Sagan

10.

 Why are many large optical telescopes located on mountains?

a)

To be above part of the atmosphere

b)

To decrease light pollution

c)

Easier to build on mountains

d)

Closer to the stars

11.

What is the disadvantage of James Webb Space Telescope?

a)

Cannot get high quality spectra of light source

b)

Resolution of images

c)

Cannot detect X-Ray

d)

Cannot detect gravitational wave

12.

A technique that uses the images from several telescopes to produce a single image

a)

Interferometry

b)

Stacking

c)

Michelson-Morley Interferometer 

d)

megascoping

13.

Modern Telescopes use ______ instead of film to capture image

a)

CCDs

b)

HDDs

c)

DVDs

d)

USBs

14.

Which of these telescopes can be use 24 hours even during bad weather?

a)

Radio Telescope

b)

Solar Telescope

c)

Newtonian Telescope

d)

Refracting Telescope

15.

What type of telescope is the Hubble space telescope?

a)

Cassegrain reflector telescopes

b)

Newtonian Telescope

c)

Refractor telescope

d)

Cassegrain refractor telescopes

16.

What is event horizon of black hole?

a)

Region of black hole where the escape velocity exceed the speed of light

b)

Region of black hole where space-time curvature is infinity

c)

Region of black hole where geodesic of space-time is quantified

d)

Region of black hole where interstellar movie director fly by

17.

What planet Juno probe studies?

a)

Jupiter

b)

Saturn

c)

Uranus

d)

Pluto

18.

What is the region of electromagnetic spectrum used by  James Webb Space Telescope to observe celestial objects ?

a)

Infrared

b)

near-infrared

c)

Mid-infrared

d)

Near-microwave 

19.

How long it takes for a photon from the core of sun to reach the surface of sun?

a)

100,000 years

b)

8 minutes

c)

1 second

d)

1,000,000 years 

20.

Q20) What is another name of habitable zone where  Earth reside? 

a)

Goldilocks zone

b)

Thermoequilibrium zone

c)

Electroweak zone

d)

Cyclotron zone

21.

James Webb Space Telescope have folding feature. What culture have this arts of folding material?

a)

Origami (Japanese culture

b)

Chinese Latern (Chinese culture)

c)

Rangoli Kolam (Indian culture)

d)

Ketupat Handcraft ( Malay culture)

22.

What is the date of James Webb Space Telescope launching?

a)

December 25, 2021

b)

December 25, 2022

c)

December 26,2020

d)

December 27, 2021

23.

What is meant by Chandrasekhar limit?

a)

Maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star

b)

Maximum density of a neutron star

c)

Maximum temperature of black hole

d)

Maximum temperature of star

24.

What is Hawking Radiation? 

a)

Electromagnetic radiation emitted by black hole

b)

Radioactive radiation caused by particle collision

c)

Radiation from Chernobyl Nuclear waste

d)

Radiation detecting method by Geiger Muller

25.

What is the Epoch of Reionization?

a)

period in the history of the universe that likely arose as a result of the arrival of the first stars and galaxies

b)

Period of history of universe where universe still in quantum fluctuation state

26.

What is black hole's Singularity?

a)

4D dimension

b)

The breaking point of law of physics

c)

Interstellar movie

d)

Different universe

27.

Why Earth is flat? 

a)

Wakanda King say so

b)

Due to law of gravity

c)

my grandmother say so

d)

Question is invalid

28.

What happen to the mass of black hole when black hole captures an amount of mass into it?

a)

Increases

b)

Decreased

c)

Constant for few hours and exponentially increases

d)

Constant

29.

Why stars have different colors?

a)

Stars have different chemical composition

b)

Stars have different temperature

c)

Stars have different mass

d)

Stars have different density

30.

Why parabolic mirror is better than spherical mirror for ground telescope? 

a)

It is able to focus light much better

b)

To decrease the influence of refractive index on the image brought by light

c)

To make 180° phase difference light wave

d)

To split light wave into various beams