Question: How many moons does Pluto have (found by year 2000)?
1) 32
2) 16
3) 4
4) 1
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Question: Which planet orbits the sun at a speed of 110,000 kph?
1) Earth
2) Venus
3) Jupiter
4) Mars
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Question: Which planet is 110 million km from the sun?
1) Earth
2) Mercury
3) Mars
4) Venus
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Question: Which planet takes 248.5 earth years to go round the sun?
1) Neptune
2) Pluto
3) Uranus
4) Saturn
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Question: A meteorite struck Antarctica in 2004. It was 30 feet wide. How far away was the climate affected by this strike?
1) Only a small section of Antarctica
2) South Africa and Argentina
3) The North Polar region
4) Other side of the planet
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Question: Most meteorites are found in Antarctica and where else?
1) Brazil
2) New Zealand
3) North Africa
4) Hawaii
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Question: In what country must you turn over any meteor finds?
1) Scotland
2) Egypt
3) South Africa
4) Russia
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Question: In the 1990s, a spacecraft was designed to protect Earth from meteors, asteroids and comets. What was its name?
1) Buster I
2) Maybelle I
3) Defender II
4) Clementine II
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Question: It has been estimated that a meteorite does what once every 180 years?
1) Hits a human
2) Leaves a crater
3) Strikes the moon
4) Splits in half
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Question: The International Space Station has protection from meteors. What is it made of?
1) Rubber
2) Kevlar
3) Plastic
4) Steel
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Question: The most famous meteor shower is the Perseids. What is its other name?
1) Saint Elmo's Fire
2) Tears of Saint Lawrence
3) Northern Lights
4) Southern Lights
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Question: A piece of stone and/or iron traveling through space that moves through the earthıs atmosphere is...?
1) Planet
2) Sun
3) Moon
4) Meteor
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Question: You are making a model of the Earth and Moon to show their relative sizes and massiveness. You've decided that Earth will be a ball of clay 6 inches in diameter, so the Moon should be...?
1) A tennis ball
2) A golf ball
3) A ping pong ball
4) A baseball
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Question: How distant is the closest star?
1) 54 million miles away
2) 72 million miles away
3) 93 million miles away
4) 127 million miles away
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Question: Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
1) Mercury
2) Mars
3) Earth
4) Jupiter
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Question: Why do variable stars pulsate in brightness?
1) Gain in mass
2) Expansion & contraction of the outer layers
3) Constant contraction
4) Movement at a fixed rate
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Question: Where are the youngest stars of the galaxy located?
1) Central bulge
2) Black holes
3) Halo
4) Spiral arms
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Question: What is located at the center of the Milky Way?
1) Gamma rays
2) A supermassive black hole
3) A supernova
4) Gas clouds
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Question: How many stars are in the disk of the Milky Way?
1) The number you can see On a clear night
2) 1 million
3) 100,000
4) 100 billion
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Question: What do astronomers use to map the shape of the Milky Way?
1) Visible light
2) Infrared rays
3) Radio waves
4) Gamma rays
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