WORKSHEET -III

WORKSHEET – III
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1. Which is the name of a radio source that is very far from Earth?
A) Tracer B) Phaser C) Laser D) Quasar
Ans: An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant 'radio-loud' quasar with the help
of European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT).
2. What percentage of the rings of Saturn are pure water ice?
A) 30% B) 90% C) 15% D) 100%
Ans: With an estimated local thickness of as little as 10 m and as much as 1 km, they are composed of 99.9%
pure water ice with a smattering of impurities that may include tholins or silicates. The main rings are
primarily composed of particles ranging in size from 1 cm to 10 m
3. What is the name of the first space tourist?
A) Mark Shuttleworth B) Dennis Tito C) Richard Garriot D) Greg Oslon
Ans: On April 30, 2001, US millionaire Dennis Tito arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) via a
Russian Soyuz rocket, becoming the world's first space tourist
4. It takes the sun 225-250 million years to do a single revolution of the milky way galaxy. How fast
does the sun travel?
A) 220 km in a second B) 220 km in a min C) 220 km in a hour D) 220 km in a year
Ans: We tend to think of the Sun as the stationary heart of our Solar System, with the planets orbiting serenely
around it. In reality, the Sun is dragging us around the galaxy at around 800,000km/h nearly 220 km/s, taking
around 250 million years to complete a single orbit.
5. How many Moons would it take to equal the brightness of the Sun?
A) 398100 B) 431109 C) 700599 D) 893156
Ans: The moon measures only a half degree across, which gives it an area of only 0.2 square degrees. So you
could fill up the entire sky, including the half that lies below our feet, with 206,264 full moons — and still
come up short by 191,836 in the effort to match the brightness of the sun. So a total of
206264+191836=398100
6. How many centimeters does the Moon move away from the Earth each year?
A) 1.7 cm B) 4.5 cm C) 3.8 cm D) 10 cm
Ans: The Moon continues to spin away from the Earth, at the rate of 3.78cm (1.48in) per year.
7. How many times larger is the radius of the Sun than that of the Earth?
A) 4.8 B) 1025 C) 109 D) 10
Ans: The Sun is 864,400 miles (1,391,000 kilometers) across. This is about 109 times the diameter of Earth.
8. Which year is Halley's Comet expected to return to the solar system?
A) 2110 B) 2045 C) 2086 D) 2061
Ans: Astronomers have now linked the comet's appearances to observations dating back more than 2,000
years. Halley was last seen in Earth's skies in 1986 and was met in space by an international fleet of
spacecraft. It will return in 2061 on its regular 76-year journey around the Sun.
9. A student creates a model of the solar system. She uses a basketball to represent Jupiter and a golf
ball to represent Earth. Which would be best to use for representing Earth's Moon?
A) A Pea B) A Baseball C) A Grapefruit D) An Orange
Ans: It's hard to imagine astronomically large distances, so let's relate our solar system to something
familiar – a basketball. If the Sun was a basketball (about 23 cm in diameter), then the Earth would be the
size of a tiny bead, just over 2 mm wide

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10. If a rocket leaves Earth and travels through the solar system away from the sun, which object's
orbital path will the rocket pass first?
A) Mars B) Venus C) Moon D) Jupiter
Ans: The moon is one of the first things that the rocket will pass through because this is nearer to the earth
as compared to the other planets and of course, the sun. The earth only has one moon but the other planets in
the solar system may have a different number of moons.
11. Which of the following planets is surrounded by thick clouds that trap energy from the sun, making
the planet incredibly warm
A) Mercury B) Mars C) Venus D) Saturn
Ans: Venus
12. The Magellanic Clouds are visible from ___?
A) Northern hemisphere B) Southern Hemisphere
C) Both Northern and Southern Hemisphere D) Neither Northern nor Southern Hemisphere
Ans: The Magellanic Clouds are visible to the unaided eye in the Southern Hemisphere, but they cannot be
observed from most northern latitudes. The LMC is about 160,000 light-years from Earth, and the SMC lies
190,000 light-years away.
13. Approximately how many moons are there in the Solar System ___
A) 81 B) 181 C) 101 D) 201
Ans: There are 181 known moons in our Solar System which are orbiting planets and dwarf planets. Despite
there being so many moons not every planet or dwarf planet has a moon.
14. Who was the first to observe Sun spots?
A) Galileo B) Halley C) Newton D) None of these
Ans: Galileo and the German Jesuit Christoph Scheiner each saw them in 1611, and vied bitterly in their
lifetimes over who deserved the credit for discovering them.
15. What percentage of the surface of the Earth is covered with water?
A) 50 percent B) 60 percent C) 70 percent D) 80 percent
Ans: About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all
Earth's water.
16. The name of the galaxy in which the earth is a planet is
A) Andromeda B) Ursa Major C) Ursa Minor D) Milky Way
Ans: We live on a planet called Earth that is part of our solar system. But where is our solar system? It is a
small part of the Milky Way Galaxy. A galaxy is a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars
and their solar systems.
17. An astronaut standing on the surface of the moon throws a ball upwards. The ball would
A) Directly fall down from the point it is released B) Hang in Space
C) Go up and then come back to the surface of the moon
D) Keep going up never to come back
Ans: Go up and then come back to the surface of the moon. Because the acceleration due to gravity on the
moon is lower than on Earth, the ball will rise and then return to the moon's surface.
18. Where is a Spy Satellite can be deployed?
A) Low Earth Orbit B) Geo Stationary Orbit C) Polar Orbit D) Both A and B
Ans: A spy-satellite is an earth observation satellite (or) communication satellite deployed in a low-earth
orbit, for military (or) intelligence applications.
19. The day on which the Sun appears to reach its most northerly excursion relative to the celestial equator
is called_________
A) The Solstice B) The Equinox C) The Aphelion D) The Ecliptic

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Ans: A solstice is an event that occurs when the Sun appears to reach its most northerly or southerly
excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere...
20. To weigh roughly two-thirds less than what you do on Earth, the planet on which you would be
A) Uranus B) Mars C) Venus D) Jupiter
Ans: On Mars, one would weigh roughly two-thirds less of what one does on Earth. Explanation: On Earth,
if you weighed 68 kilogrammes, you would weigh 25.6 kilogrammes on Mars. You would weigh
less if you travelled to Mars since it is a smaller planet than Earth and does not exert as much force
on you.
21. What are the conditions in space?
A) Extreme temperatures, no atmosphere, microgravity, Ultraviolet radiation
B) Extreme temperatures, no atmosphere, microgravity, no radiation
C) Extreme temperatures, no atmosphere, macro gravity, Ultraviolet radiation
D) Extreme temperatures, no atmosphere, macro gravity, Radiation
Ans: Space is one of the most extreme environments imaginable. Above the insulating atmosphere of the
Earth, spacecraft are subjected to extremes of temperature, both hot and cold, and a significantly
increased threat of radiation damage.
22. The Shortest distance of a planet from the sun is known as___
A) Aphelion B) Perihelion C) Helix D) Eccentricity
Ans: The place at which the planet Earth is closest to the sun is known as Perihelion. The distance of the
center of Earth and Sun during Perihelion is 147 million km..
23. What is the coolest region of the Sun?
A) The Core B) The photosphere C) The chromospheres D) The corona
Ans: Several sources online say that the coolest layer of the sun is the photosphere
24. The correct order of the planets in the Solar System, starting closest to the Sun is
A) Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
B) Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars ,Saturn, Earth, Venus, Mercury
C) Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury
D) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Ans: The order of the planet farthest from the Sun to the planet nearest to the Sun is:
Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury
25. The speed is needed for a gas molecule to escape from a planet is ____
A) Escape velocity B) Orbital speed C) Solar wind speed D) Speed of light
Ans: The escape velocity is the initial velocity needed to escape a massive body's gravitational influence.
Since the Earth has Vescape = 11.2 km/sec, it would appear that an Earth-mass sized object at the distance
of Jupiter could hold onto hydrogen gas.

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