Astronomical Terms

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. What is a bright streak of light seen in the sky? Meteor Meteroid Meteorite Asteroid

2. Light travels at 186,282 miles per _______________. second year minute hour

3. What is a depression on a terrestrial planet or satellite called? Crater Mountain Hill Ridge

4. The uppermost region of the Sun is called the? Photosphere Corona Chromosphere Ionosphere

5. A medium sized icy solar system object is called a? Comet Star Planet Asteroid

6. What is a fireball that produces a sonic boom called? No such object meteorite Comet Bolide

7. What is the brightness scale of stars called? Albedo Magnitude Temperature Density

8. 3.26 light years is called? an astronomical Unit a parsec nothing the distance to the nearest star

9. What is a bright region in the Sun called? Plage Flare Sunspot Prominence

10. What is the name for an object that goes around another object backwards called? Prograde Normal Upside down Retrograde