1.
About how many light years across is the Milky Way?
A
1,000
B
10,000
C
100,000
D
1000,000
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About how many light years across is the Milky Way?
1,000
10,000
100,000
1000,000
The Andromeda Galaxy is which of the following types of galaxies?
elliptical
spiral
barred-spiral
irregular
The sunspot cycle is
3 years
7 years
11 years
14 years
Which one best represents the time it takes energy generated in the core of the sun to reach the surface of the sun and be radiated?
Three minutes
Thirty days
One thousand years
One million years
The time interval between two successive occurrences of a specific type of alignment of a planet (or the moon) with the sun and the earth is referred to as
a conjunction
an opposition
a sidereal period
a synodic period
One Jupiter day is equal to which of the following?
8 hrs 40 min
9 hrs 50 min
10 hrs 30 min
12 hrs 10 min
One of the largest Volcanoes in our solar system-if not the largest is named Olympus Mons. This Volcano is located on
Jupiters Moon Callisto
Venus
Saturns Moon Titan
Mars
Rounded to the nearest day, the Mercurian year is equal to
115
78
88
165
The biggest asteroid known is
Vesta
Icarus
Ceres
Eros
The largest circular storm in our solar system is on the surface of which of the following planets?
Jupiter
Venus
Uranus
Earth