1. What two motions do all planets have?
Answer: Orbit and spin.
2. When did the Space Age begin?
Answer: 1957.
3. What is the visible part of the Sun called?
Answer: The Photosphere.
4. What makes a planet a dwarf planet?
Answer: Size and shape.
In 2006, Pluto, Eris, and Ceres were classified as dwarf planets. Makemake and Haumea
were added in 2008.
5. What term describes the alignment of three celestial bodies?
Answer: Syzygy.
6. Which of these objects is the farthest from the Sun?
A. Saturn B. Neptune C. Kuiper belt D. 90377 Sedna
Answer: D
7. Approximately how many miles are there in a light year?
Answer: 5.9 trillion.
8. Which is the name of a radio source that is very far from Earth?
Answer: Quasar.
9. The day on which the Sun’s direct rays cross the celestial equator is called:
Answer: The equinox.
10. Who invented the telescope?
Answer: Hans Lippershey.
11. Who invented the World Wide Web?
Answer: A laboratory in Switzerland.
12. Which of the following technological developments came first?
A. telegraph B. telescope C. teletype D. telephone
Answer: B.
13. Moths are a member of what order?
Answer: Lepidoptera.
14. When was the first plastic made of artificial materials patented?
Answer: 1909.
15. A baby blue whale drinks this many liters of milk per day:
Answer: 190.
16. For whom is the centigrade system of temperature measurement named?
Answer: Anders Celsius.
17. For whom is the Fahrenheit system of temperature measurement named?
Answer: Daniel Fahrenheit.
18. Who is considered the “father” of the scientific method?
Answer: Galileo.
19. Who developed the theory of evolution?
Answer: Charles Darwin.
20. What is the reflectivity of Earth’s surface called?
Answer: Albedo effect.
21. How old is sunlight by the time it reaches Earth?
Answer: 8 minutes.
22. What is the average surface temperature of Earth?
Answer: 14 ºC.
23. What is Earth’s predominant environment?
Answer: Deep Ocean.
24. Who was the first person to orbit Earth?
Answer: Yuri Gagarin.
25. How much of the Earth is covered with oceans?
Answer: 71 percent.
26. What planet is closest to Saturn?
Answer: Jupiter.
27. What is the most volcanically active body in our solar system?
Answer: A moon.
28. What is the name for a space without air, gas, or other matter?
Answer: Vacuum.
29. On what planet is the Great Red Spot?
Answer: Jupiter.
30. What star is nearest to Earth?
Answer: The Sun.
31. What is the closest star to our Sun?
Answer: Proxima Centauri.
32. What ocean receives the most fresh water from rivers?
Answer: Atlantic.
33. How much of the Earth’s surface is covered with water?
Answer: Three-quarters.
34. What is a tropical cyclone called in the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: Hurricane.
35. What is the most common element in water?
Answer: Hydrogen.
36. What is the largest floating object in the ocean?
Answer: Iceberg.
37. From what, besides hydrogen, is water made?
Answer: Oxygen.
38. How many calories does a glass of water contain?
Answer: 0.
39. Who discovered the X-ray?
Answer: Wilhelm Roentgen.
40. What is the name for the aircraft body?
Answer: Fuselage.
41. With what phenomenon is the physicist Benjamin Thompson associated?
Answer: Heat.
42. Who developed the laws of motion?
Answer: Isaac Newton.
43. In physics, for every action there is an equal and opposite what?
Answer: Reaction.
44. What kind of energy is contained in a rock on a cliff?
Answer: Potential.
45. What theory is Albert Einstein known for?
Answer: Relativity.
46. What unit measures food energy?
Answer: Calorie.
47. In basic pasteurization, at what temperature is milk heated (in centigrade)?
Answer: 63.
48. When do humans grow fastest?
Answer: 1 year old.
49. How many kilometers is a mile?
Answer: 1.609
50. What does a barometer measure?
Answer: Air pressure.
51. Why is the Moon not considered a planet?
Answer: It orbits Earth.
52. What is the hottest planet?
Answer: Venus.
53. Why are exoplanets thought to be the most likely host for extraterrestrial life?
Answer: They may be like Earth.
54. What is the sixth planet from the Sun?
Answer: Saturn.
55. Which planet is named for an ancient messenger?
Answer: Mercury.
56. What is the name for planets outside our solar system?
Answer: Exoplanets.
57. What do we call a material that heat or electricity can move through?
Answer: Conductor.
58. Who invented the battery?
Answer: Alessandro Volta.
59. A lead acid battery stores what kind of electricity?
Answer: Direct current (DC).
60. Who discovered the law of electrolysis?
Answer: Michael Faraday.
61. Electricity that reaches our homes through cables is called:
Answer: Current electricity.
62. What is another name for the voice box?
Answer: Larynx.
63. What is the name for a speed greater than that of sound?
Answer: Mach.
64. What kind of sound is too high for humans to hear?
Answer: Ultrasound.
65. What is pitch?
Answer: The highness or lowness of a sound.
66. The relative loudness of a sound is measured by:
Answer: Decibel.
