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Astronomy Quiz: How Well Do You Know Outer Space?

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The Universe is huge, and there is so much out there that we don’t know about. It’s interesting to learn about all the things that surround us. We already know so much from this fascinating planet, but now we can learn about what’s beyond our home. Grab your astronaut suits, hop into the spaceship of this quiz and test your knowledge!

  • Question of

    Can we breathe in outer space?

    • Yes, we can.
    • No, we can’t.
  • Question of

    A black hole doesn’t actually “suck” anything in. We would have to get very, very close to its entrance to be pulled, but we would be ripped in half by its gravitational force before we could go any further.

    • Very true.
    • No.
  • Question of

    COMETS are made up of metals and rocky materials, while ASTEROIDS are made up of ice, dust and rocky material.

    • Yes, that’s it.
    • No, it’s the other way around.
  • Question of

    What is a meteor?

    • A rock
    • A shooting star
    • A planet
    • An alien
  • Question of

    What’s a meteorite?

    • Another word for meteor or a shooting star
    • It’s just another word for an asteroid
    • A meteoroid that has survived the Earth’s atmoshpere and has fallen to Earth
    • None of these are correct
  • Question of

    The Earth is the moon’s origin. A long time ago, a large planetoid object hit Earth and knocked off a few chunks of the planet. These chunks stayed in orbit, fusing together. Thus, the moon was born.

    • Yes, that’s true.
    • No, it’s a space rock.
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    Which of these are gas giants?

    • Mercury and Mars, and Neptune
    • Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
    • Saturn, Eath and Uranus
    • Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
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    How many rings does Saturn have?

    • 7, three main big ones and four fainter and narrower ones
    • 7, four main big rings and three fainter and narrower ones
    • 8, four main big ones and four little ones
    • 6, three big ones and three little ones
  • Question of

    The asteroid belt is located between the orbits of planets Mars and Jupiter.

    • Yes, that’s right.
    • No, it’s some other planets.
  • Question of

    Tiny alien organisms have been found on planet Mars!

    • Yeah, that’s so cool!
    • No way; that’s impossible.
  • Question of

    The Universe is big and there are billions upon billions of galaxies.

    • True
    • False
  • Question of

    Pluto was annouced “Not A Planet” in 2006, but has been changed back into being considered a “Planet” once again!

    • True, and it’s awesome!
    • No, that’s not right!
  • Question of

    Is the Sun the biggest star in our Solar System?

    • Yes
    • No

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Written by Running The Galaxies

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  14. Where is your evidence for Pluto being reinstated? I know that the downgrading excited some controversy and opposition, but you seem to be saying that the decision has been reversed. If so that is news to me. Is Eris (which is larger than Pluto) now considered to be a planet as well?

  16. Uranus and Neptune are ice giants (not gas giants). This has been the scientific consensus since the 1990s. Your Info is seriously out of date on this point.
    Thanks for taking note of some of the other points i and others raised, and editing your quiz 🙂

    • Thanks for coming back to the quiz. I just pretty much re-worded stuff. I got this info from the astronomers Today. I took an astronomy class in college last semester and the multiple teachers were astronomers for a long time and still working and they shared recent info with us they may have or haven’t published yet. I even googled my stuff and these answers were the first things that came up. We studied for a long time about the categories they used with the planets. They created the “terrestrial” category for the first four planets and they created the gas Giant category for the last four due to what they’re made up. The first four are small hot solid planets, and the last four are the huge cold gases. That’s how they debated Pluto not being a planet or being a planet because it was a Cold Solid, so it crossed the categories. But then they started working on other subcategories that they are recently still editing with NASA and other science places I can’t remember. I studied the other topics with them as well and still have some of the notes from their papers and stuff. I listen and trust their info. They wouldn’t make such an advance crazy astronomy class for college and deliver false information. That’s why I stand with the info. But it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t have to be so specific and technical. We all know the basics of the astronomy which is just what I was trying to cover, so that’s what matters, you know? =P

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  30. Thanks for posting, I would proofread questions and answers a little more before posting. Question 1 (is there oxygen in space, the correct answer is yes. I think the question you were trying to ask is “does space have an atmosphere” then the answer would be no). Oxygen is present in space, just not an atmosphere.

    Question 7 you already posted above that you knew the correct answer.

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    • Thank you for letting me know these things. This is the first quiz I messed up. We all make mistakes. And it’s confusing when every single space movie or book always says there’s no oxygen in space. I don’t know, maybe this world is a lie. Ha ha! Just kidding. But it’s hard to know what’s true sometimes.

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      • As a former teacher I can tell you that as a future teacher you are well on your way. It is ok to make mistakes, we all do! But you also are taking responsiblity for the mistake and that is the mark of a future great teacher!

  31. And black holes don’t actually “suck” but if you get close enough, yes, you do go in and can’t escape, but you’re ripped in half, you don’t survive. This is according to current info.

  33. Running The Galaxies, I hope you’re not running my galaxy. Did you just make up the answers as you went along? Of course a black hole would suck people (and anything else in the vicinity) in, with its huge gravitational force. The earth is not “just a chunk of the Earth that broke off ages ago.” There are several competing theories about its origin, but that one was dismissed decades ago. Jupiter and Saturn are the only gas giants of the Solar System – certainly not earth or Mercury.
    At this point in your quiz, I just gave up 🙁

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      • Hey, thanks for the observations. Im sorry the quiz was a bust for you. I placed different answers to make the quiz challenging, not because any of them are correct because some are wrong obviously. Of course, I don’t want to misinform people. I am going to be a teacher and I want people to learn. The quiz says the gas Giants are Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus, which is correct. If the quiz marked anything else then it was a mistake. According to my really hard astronomy class in college last semester, and the many places I read on astronomy, the answers in my quiz are correct. It was current info and my teacher has been an astronomer her whole life. So, I don’t know. I’m not the expert. There’s always a million sides to science with everyone anyhow because we don’t always agree with everything, like whether Pluto was a planet or not. But that’s okay.

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