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1. The sun and the nine planets which travel around it is called ……………..
a. galaxy
b. solar system
c. lunar system
d. orbit
e. stars

2. The diameter of the Sun is 1. 392.000 km, it’s about ………… times of
the diameter of the Earth.
a. 100
b. 200
c. 109
d. 119
e. 90

3. The heat of the Sun’s surface is ……… Celcius degrees

a. 6000
b. 60.000
c. 600.000
d. 600
e. 60

4. ………………… is the layer of ionized gas surrounding the Sun which is

clearly visible during a total solar eclipse.
a. chromosphere
b. photosphere
c. prominence
d. corona
e. ray

5. The planet which is surrounded by its beautiful ring is …………..

a. Venus
b. Mars
c. Jupiter
d. Pluto
e. Saturn

6. The Earth has 365 days a year but Mars has ………… a year.
a. 687
b. 768
c. 876
d. 678
e. 786
7. The Mars’ days in a year is …….days longer than the Earth’s .
a. 320
b. 332
c. 223
d. 322
e. 232

8. Which of the following is correct?

a. Mars surface is a dry season
b. Mars has two satellites
c. Mars has no North and South poles
d. Scientist are very sure that there is life in Mars
e. Mars is a star

9. What is the region in outer space, from which no matter or radiation can
escape?
a. blackboard
b. black hole
c. black magic
d. black jack
e. black clouds

10. What is the name of the space probe that landed on Mars in 1997?
a. Mars Path
b. Marine IX
c. Challenger
d. Columbia
e. Appolo
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Fill in the blanks with the answers provided below the questions!

1. The smallest kind of stars is called a …

2. Jupiter’s moon, …, probably has water below its surface which could spawn life.
3. … was the British scientist who first explained how gravity works.
4. A … is a vast group of stars, and the Milky Way is the one we live in.
5. There may be a huge … in the very middle of the Milky Way.
6. The … is everything that we can ever know – all of space and all of time, it is
almost entirely empty with small clusters of matters and energy.
7. … are places where gravity is so strong that it sucks everything in, including
lights.
8. The nearest planet to the sun is …. During its orbit, it is between 45.6 and 69.7
million kilometer away.
9. The astronomer who first suggested that the sun was the center and that the earth
went around the sun was ….
10. One day on Mercury lasts … earth days because Mercury takes almost two month
to spin around.
11. One day on Jupiter lasts less than … hours because Jupiter spin so fast.
12. Gravity on the moon is so … that astronauts can leap high into the air wearing
their heavy space suits.
13. Constellations are … of stars in the sky which astronomers use to help them
pinpoint individual stars.
14. The brightest star in each constellation is called the … star, the next brightest beta
and so on.
15. Different constellations become … at different times of year, as the earth travels
around the sun.
16. Orbits may be circular, elliptical, or parabolic. The orbits of the planets are ….
17. An orbiting space objects is called a ….
18. Venus shines like a star in the night sky because its thick … reflects sunlight
amazingly well.
19. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system with a surface temperature of over
… 0C.
20. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was a great Italian mathematician and ….
21. For a long time, the surface of the earth was a mass of erupting ….
22. The distance to the moon is measured with a ….
23. The distance to the planets is measured by bouncing … off them and timing how
long the signals to get there and back.
24. … shift can only be used to measure nearby stars, so astronomers work out the
distance to far away stars and galaxies by comparing how bright they look with how
bright they actually are.
25. … are bright objects with long tails, which we sometimes see streaking across the
night sky.
26. Lunar eclipses happen once or … every year and last only a few hours.
27. In a total eclipse of the sun, the … passes directly in front of the sun, completely
covering it so that only its corona can be seen.
28. … (1738-1822) was an amateur astronomer who built his own very powerful
telescope in his home in Bath, England.
29. The sixth planet, …, was discovered by W. Herschell in 1781.
30. The first artificial satellite was …, launched on 4 October 1967.
31. Mars is the fourth planet out from the sun, it takes … days to complete its orbit.
32. Mars has two tiny moons called Phobos and ….
33. … are streams of high energy particles that strike earth’s atmosphere.
34. Jupiter has no surface for spacecraft to land on because it is made mostly from …
gas and hydrogen.
35. The largest moon in the solar system is …’s moon which is called Ganymede.
36. The final gigantic explosion of a supergiant star at the end of its life is a ….
37. Above the … of the sun, is the chromosphere and above the chromosphere is the
sun’s halo-like corona.
38. … are bright displays of simmering lights that appear at night over the north and
south poles.
 39. The planet which has a deep ocean of ionized water beneath its icy surface of
helium and hydrogen is ….
40. Terrestrial planets have a surface of … rock while gas planets have a surface of
liquid or airy gas.
41. Earth’s … is the day its orbit brings it closest to the sun, 3 January.
42. Earth’s … is the day it is furthest from the sun, 4 July.
43. The planet with the shortest year is … which whizzes around the sun in just 88
days.
44. The planet with the longest year is … which takes 249 years to orbit the sun.
45. The planet with the year closes to earth in length is … whose year lasts 225 days.
46. The … is the point on the sphere directly above your head as you look at the night
sky.
47. The dark center of a sun spot is called the …, the coolest bead of a sun spot.
Around it is the lighter penumbra.
48. The gas in stars is in a special got state called … which is made of atoms stripped
of electrons.
49. Astronomers work out how big a star is from its brightness and its ….
50. The greatest scientist who is famous for creating two theories of relativity is … .

10 black hole Jupiter perihelion twice

470 black holes laser beam photosphere umbra
59 comets Mercury plasma universe
687 cosmic rays Mercury Pluto Uranus
Albert Einstein Deimos moon radar signals Venus
alpha elliptical Neptune satellite visible
aphelion Europa Neutron star solid volcanoes
astronomer galaxy Nicolaus Sputnik I weak
Copernicus
atmosphere helium parallax Supernova William
Herschel
auroras Isaac Newton patterns temperature zenith

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