The name for the average sun-to-earth distance is? 1. A parsec
2. An astronomical unit,
3. A light year
4. A year

What makes up the solar system?
1. The sun and the earth
2. The sun and the moon
3. The sun and the planets
4. The sun, the planets, and their moons and swarms of smaller bodies

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a planet?
1. Body of significant size
2. Orbits of a star
3. Produces its own light
4. Body of very small size

The Solar System is part of the
1. Andromenda galaxy
2. Milky Way galaxy
3. Whirlpool galaxy
4. Black eye galaxy

3,600,000 can be expressed in scientific notation as
1. 3.6 x 10 ^ 7
2. 3.6 x 10 ^ 6
3. 36 x 10 ^ 6

An astronmer finds an object at a distance of 10.2 AU from earth. Based on the distance, which of the following is this object most likely to be?
1. A star in our galaxy
2. An artificial satellite orbiting the earth
3. A distant galaxy
4. An object in our solar system
5. Another universe

A light year is:
1. The distance that light travels in one year
2. The time taken for the earth to orbit the sun once
3. The average distance between the earth and sun
4. The time taken for light to travel from the sun to the earth
5. The distance at which 1 AU subtends an angle of 1 arc second

When you see a start that is 200 light years away, you see the star?
1. As it will be 200 years from now
2. As it will be 100 years from now
3. As it is today
4. How it was 100 years ago

Which of the following is a dwarf planet
1. Mars
2. Existence of god
3. Pluto
4. Jupiter
5. Saturn

What is the scientific method?
1. Results from experiments agree with theories about physical pheonmena and observations
2. Data can be adjusted to agree with theories about physical phenomena
3. Theories about the physical phenomena that some people agree with
4. Theories about physical phenomena