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Multiple-choice Questions: Science in everyday life MCQs

Question: The Mass of the Sun

1.98×10 (power 30) kg

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Question: The temperature of the center of the sun

15 million degrees centigrade

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Question: Phases of the moon are due to

Revolution of the moon around the earth

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Black holes refer to

The collapsing object of high density

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Question: Planet Which orbits around the Sun in the clockwise direction

Venus

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Question: why spring tides occur on a full moon?

Sun moon and earth are in a straight line

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Question: fastest rotating planet

Jupiter

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Question: A planet with the smallest diameter

Mercury

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Question: Largest Planet

Jupiter

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Question: Most abundant element in earth’s Crust

Oxygen

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Question: Who was the first to measure the earth’s radius?

Eratosthenes was the first measure the Earth’s Radius

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Question: The nearest star to our sun

Proxima Centauri

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Question: A lunar eclipse occurs when

Earth is between the Sun and the moon

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Question: Setting Sun looks oval due to

Refraction of Sun rays passing through the atmosphere

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Question: Brightest planet

Venus is the Brightest Planet

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Question: The planet is known as the morning star

Venus

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Question: The Largest moon in the solar system

Ganymede is the Largest Moon in the Solar System

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Question: Hottest Planet

Venus is the Hottest Planet

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Question: The planet is known as the evening star

Venus

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Question: closest planet to earth

Venus closest planet to earth

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Question: planet closest to the sun

Mercury planet closest to the sun

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Question: dwarf planet

Pluto is the dwarf planet

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Question: Bodies Which fall from the sky on the earth are called

Meteoroids

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Question: Luminous celestial bodies moving around the Sun are

Comets celestial bodies

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Question: sunrises in the east and sets in the west due to

Rotation of the earth on its axis

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Question: dark umbra

The inner and dark portion of the shadow

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Question: A lunar eclipse occurs during what moon phase?

Full moon lunar eclipse occurs

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Question: What are comets made of

Comets made of ice and dust

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Question: The Largest constellation is

Hydra is the Largest Constellation

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Question: comet tail

Comet tail 250 million km long

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Question: The largest asteroid is

The largest asteroid is cores

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what is also called planetoids or minor planets?

Asteroids are called planetoids or minor planets

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Asteroids orbit between the orbit of

Mars and Jupiter

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Question: What is the difference between meteoroid, meteor, and meteorite?

A meteoroid is a small body traveling through space

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Question: When it strikes the earth atmosphere, produces the visual phenomenon called a meteor

A fragment that survives to hit the ground is called the meteorite

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Question: A solar eclipse occurs when

A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon comes between the sun and the earth

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Question: Types of solar eclipse

Two types – total solar eclipse and partial solar eclipse

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Question: a lunar eclipse occurs when

Earth comes between the sun and the moon

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Question: Types of lunar eclipse

Three Types of Lunar Eclipse –

1- Penumbral Lunar Eclipse,

2- Partial Lunar Eclipse,

3- Total Solar eclipse

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Question: Moon is a

Moon is a natural satellite

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Question: Our moon is also called as the

Luna

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Question: Moon diameter in km

Moon diameter 3475 km

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Question: Mass of moon

Mass of moon is 7.3 ×10 (power 22) kg

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Question: Distance from earth to moon

distance from the earth to the moon is 384, 400 km (238, 857 miles)

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Question: The moon orbits the earth every

The moon orbits the earth 27 days and 7 hours

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Question: Moon Surface Temperature is

Moon surface Temperature is 107 degree Celsius

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Question: Moon has

No atmosphere

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Question: How long does it take light to travel from the moon to earth?

1.3 seconds take light to travel from the moon to earth

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Question: Difference between a planet and dwarf planet

Difference between the planet and the dwarf planet is Area

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Question: How many dwarf planets are there

There are 5 Dwarf Planets

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Question: Distance from earth to the sun

The distance from the earth to sun 150 million km

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Question: Diameter of earth

The diameter of the earth is 12756 km

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Question: Earth’s period of revolution

Total Earth’s revolution Period 365.25 days

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Question: Earth’s period of rotation

earth’s period of rotation 24 hours

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Question: The mars moons

Two moons

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Question: Moons of Jupiter

67 Moons of Jupiter

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Question: How many moons does Saturn have

62 moons Saturn Have

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Question: Uranus moons

27 moons

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Question: Neptune moons

14 moons

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Question: Which planets are called twin planets

Neptune and Uranus are called twin planets

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Question: What is the coldest planet

Neptune is the coldest planet

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Question: Green planet

Uranus is the green planet

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Question: Planet with rings

Saturn planet with rings

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Question: Red Planet is called to

Mars is the red Planet

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Question: What is the sun?

Sun is the Star

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Question: Gases on Sun

Hydrogen and helium are gases on the sun

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Question: What type of nuclear reaction occurs in the sun?

Nuclear fusion

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Question: The temperature of the sun in

15 million degrees centigrade temperature of the sun

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Question: Sun’s rays reach earth surface in

8 minutes and 20 seconds

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