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Grade 11 Planetary Motion
Who was the first person to propose that Earth and the other planets move around the Sun?
  1. Aristotle
  2. Copernicus
  3. Galileo
  4. Newton
Grade 11 Inner Planets
Earth's heat originated from                        .
  1. gravitation coalescence
  2. the Sun
  3. radioactive decay
  4. all of the above
Grade 11 Planetary Motion
This is the darkest, smallest part of an eclipse.
  1. Eclipse
  2. Solar eclipse
  3. Lunar eclipse
  4. Umbra
  5. Penumbra
Grade 11 Outer Planets
Which of the following had early discovered four of the many moons of Jupiter?
  1. Galileo Galilei
  2. Johannes Kepler
  3. Nicholas Copernicus
  4. Tycho Brahe
Grade 11 Sun
About how much longer do scientists think the Sun will exist as we know it?
  1. 500 years
  2. 5 billion years
  3. 5 million years
  4. 5 trillion years
Grade 11 Inner Planets
Venus has a surface temperature of about                             .
  1. 375° Celsius
  2. 475° Celsius
  3. 125° Celsius
  4. 250° Celsius
Grade 11 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
What is the difference between an asteroid and comet?
  1. A comet orbits the sun and an asteroid does not.
  2. When a comet comes near the sun it loses material while an asteroid typically remains solid.
  3. An asteroid is formed from leftovers from the formation of the solar system and a comet is not.
  4. An asteroid orbits the sun in the oort cloud while a comet orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
Grade 11 Inner Planets
Which inner planets have atmospheres substantial enough to generate weather?
  1. Mercury, Venus, Earth
  2. Mercury, Earth, Mars
  3. Venus, Earth, Mars
Grade 11 Stars
The parallax of a star is inversely related to its                .
  1. temperature
  2. distance
  3. luminosity
  4. diameter
  5. composition
Grade 11 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Is Pluto considered a planet?
  1. Yes, because Pluto has an orbit
  2. Yes, because Pluto has moons
  3. No, because Pluto doesn't deserve to be a planet.
  4. No, because Pluto is unable to clear the neighborhood surrounding its orbit.
Grade 11 Small Bodies and Dwarf Planets
Which dwarf planet is located in the asteroid belt?
  1. Ceres
  2. Eris
  3. Pluto
  4. Vesta
Grade 11 Space Exploration
Which of the following crewed spacecraft was the first to land on the moon?
  1. Apollo 8
  2. Apollo 11
  3. Apollo 12
  4. Apollo 13
Grade 11 Space Exploration
Who among the following figures is the first woman in space?
  1. Amelia Earhart
  2. Olga Korbut
  3. Sally Ride
  4. Valentina Tereshkova
Grade 11 Space Exploration
Which astronaut became the president of an airline?
  1. Buzz Aldrin
  2. Frank Borman
  3. John Glenn
  4. Neil Armstrong
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