Solar System Online Test

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1. What geological feature on Earth is formed by the stretching and thinning of the crust, leading to the sinking of blocks of land between parallel faults?

a) Impact crater

b) Rift valley

c) Trench

d) Fold mountain

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2. What is the name of the largest volcano in the solar system, located on Mars?

a) Mount Everest

b) Olympus Mons

c) Mount Kilimanjaro

d) Mauna Kea

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3. What is the name of the large, high-altitude vortex observed at Venus' south pole?

a) Saturn's Hexagon

b) Venus' Vortex

c) Venus' South Polar Vortex

d) Venus' North Polar Vortex

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4. Which ground-based telescope is located in Chile and is designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method?

a) Hubble Space Telescope

b) James Webb Space Telescope

c) Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC)

d) SPECULOOS

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5. Which moon of Jupiter is thought to have a subsurface ocean beneath its icy crust, potentially harboring conditions suitable for life?

a) Io

b) Europa

c) Ganymede

d) Callisto

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6. Which geological feature on Earth is the result of the collision between tectonic plates, leading to the formation of mountain ranges?

a) Impact crater

b) Rift valley

c) Trench

d) Fold mountain

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7. What is the name of the phenomenon where a planet or moon passes directly between a star and the observer, causing a temporary decrease in the star's brightness?

a) Solar eclipse

b) Lunar eclipse

c) Transit

d) Occultation

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8. What is the name of the dwarf planet located in the Kuiper Belt, known for its elongated shape and rapid rotation?

a) Pluto

b) Haumea

c) Eris

d) Makemake

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9. What are the primary components of the solar wind?

a) Helium and oxygen

b) Hydrogen and nitrogen

c) Protons and electrons

d) Neutrons and positrons

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10. What phenomenon on Venus is characterized by a slow retrograde rotation, meaning it rotates in the opposite direction of most planets in the Solar System?

a) Axial tilt

b) Retrograde rotation

c) Synodic period

d) Orbital resonance

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11. Which elements in Earth's atmosphere are responsible for the green and red colors in auroras?

a) Hydrogen and helium

b) Carbon and nitrogen

c) Oxygen and nitrogen

d) Sulfur and chlorine

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12. What is tidal locking?

a) The synchronization of rotation and orbit of a moon

b) The synchronization of rotation and orbit of a planet

c) The synchronization of rotation and orbit of a star

d) The synchronization of rotation and orbit of a comet

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13. What is the name of the tallest mountain on the Moon, located near the southwestern edge of the Imbrium Basin?

a) Mount Everest

b) Mons Huygens

c) Mount Hadley

d) Mons Mons

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14. Which spacecraft was the first to visit Mercury?

a) Voyager 1

b) Pioneer 10

c) Mariner 10

d) Galileo

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15. Which Mars rover is equipped with a drill to collect samples of Martian rocks and soil for analysis?

a) New Horizons

b) Juno

c) Curiosity

d) Opportunity

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16. What is the potential significance of recent discoveries of subsurface water ice on Mars?

a) Evidence of ancient oceans

b) Indication of present-day habitability

c) Evidence of past volcanic activity

d) Indication of geological faults

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17. Which biome is characterized by tall grasses, few trees, and a distinct rainy and dry season?

a) Desert

b) Grassland (Prairie)

c) Tropical Rainforest

d) Tundra

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18. Which space probe was the first to visit Jupiter and later became the first human-made object to leave the Solar System?

a) Voyager 1

b) Voyager 2

c) Pioneer 10

d) Pioneer 11

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19. What is the name of the asteroid belt object that was visited by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2?

a) Ryugu

b) Bennu

c) Itokawa

d) Mathilde

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20. Which mission is currently orbiting Mercury to study its surface and composition?

a) Cassini

b) Juno

c) MESSENGER

d) New Horizons

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21. What is the name of the faint, outermost ring of Saturn discovered by the Voyager spacecraft?

a) E Ring

b) F Ring

c) G Ring

d) H Ring

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22. What is the name of the intense radiation belt surrounding Jupiter?

a) Van Allen Belts

b) Kuiper Belt

c) Oort Cloud

d) Magnetosphere

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23. What is the name of a small rocky or metallic body in space that enters Earth's atmosphere and produces a streak of light?

a) Meteorite

b) Meteoroid

c) Meteor

d) Comet

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24. What is the phenomenon called when the solar wind compresses Earth's magnetosphere on the side facing the Sun?

a) Magnetotail

b) Bow Shock

c) Magnetopause

d) Solar Flare

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25. Which layer of the Earth's atmosphere contains the ozone layer?

a) Mesosphere

b) Stratosphere

c) Troposphere

d) Thermosphere

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26. What was the approximate length of the tail of Comet Hale-Bopp during its peak brightness in 1997?

a) 1 million kilometers

b) 10 million kilometers

c) 100 million kilometers

d) 1 billion kilometers

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27. What causes the extreme greenhouse effect on Venus?

a) Thick atmosphere with high levels of carbon dioxide

b) Rapid rotation of the planet

c) Presence of water vapor

d) Distance from the Sun

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28. What is the term for the process by which plants convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen using sunlight?

a) Photosynthesis

b) Respiration

c) Transpiration

d) Decomposition

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29. Which Apollo mission was the last to land humans on the Moon's surface?

a) Apollo 14

b) Apollo 15

c) Apollo 16

d) Apollo 17

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30. What is the name of the spacecraft that successfully landed the Huygens probe on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in 2005?

a) Cassini

b) New Horizons

c) Juno

d) Voyager 2

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