Astronomy 1000+ MCQ with answer for NEET

1. What is the most accurate description of the shape of the earth?
A. a geoid
B. a spherical
C. an oblate sphere
D. a flat disc
Answer : A

2. Outside Antarctica, which is the deepest part of the earth?
A. The Dead Sea
B. The Aral Sea
C. The Caspian Sea
D. Lake Baikal
Answer : A

3. In which direction la the Tropic oC Capricorn in relation to the Equator?
A. North
B. South
C. East
D. West
Answer : B

4. Largest planet of our Solar System is _____.
A. Jupiter
B. Mars
C. Saturn
D. Uranus
Answer : A

5. Which of the following statements best describes longitudes?
A. An imaginary line on the earth's surface joining the north and south pole
B. The angular distance east or west of the Greenwich Meridian
C. The distance of place east or west of the Greenwich Meridian
D. The position of a place on the Earth surface with reference to the Prime Meridian
Answer : B

6. Planet with nearly equal rotation and revolution time to the earth is _____.
A. Venus
B. Mercury
C. Uranus
D. Mars
Answer : A

7. How many planets does our Solar System consist of?
A. 9
B. 6
C. 7
D. 10
Answer : A

8. Which two planets do not have any satellites?
1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Saturn
4. Pluto
A. 1 and 2
B. 2 WtQ 3
C. 3 and 4
D. 1 and 4
Answer : A

9. A leap year consists of
A. 365 days
B. 365 days and 6 months
C. 364 days
D. 366 days
Answer : D

10. A celestial body which revolves round a planet just as a planet revolves round the Sun is called _____.
A. Moon
B. Asteroid
C. Satellite
D. Great Bear
Answer : C

11. The visible surface of the sun is known as
A. Chromosphere
B. Sunspots
C. Sun surface
D. Photosphere
Answer : D

12. What do you call a narrow neck oC land that connects two larger landmasses?
A. Peninsula
B. Isthmus
C. Cape
D. Strait
Answer : B

13. The group of small pieces of rock revolving round the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter are called
A. meteors
B. comets
C. meteorites
D. asteroids
Answer : D

14. Charon' is the satellite of _____.
A. Earth
B. Saturn
C. Pluto
D. Neptune
Answer : C

15. Which of the following are the Inner Planets?
1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Earth
4. Mars
A. Only 1
B. 1 and 2
C. 1, 2 and 3
D. 1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer : D

16. The planet of lowest density (0.69) is __ .
A. Jupiter
B. Saturn
C. Neptune
D. Pluto
Answer : B

17. Who was the first person to describe the earth as a sphere?
A. Columbus
B. Varahmihir
C. Aryabhat
D. Copernicus
Answer : D

18. Which of the following statements prove(s) that the earth Is spherical?
The Sun rises and sets at different lines in different places.
The shadow cast by the earth on the moon during the lunar eclipse is always circular.
Pictures taken from high alti
A. Only 1
B. 2 and 3
C. I, 2 and 3
D. Only 2
Answer : C

19. The time period elapsing between one New Moon and the next is approximately
A. 8.19 Days
B. 30 days
C. 29.5 Days
D. 61 Days
Answer : C

20. How many satellites does the largest planet have?
A. Sixteen
B. Ten
C. Six
D. Nine
Answer : A

21. Which of the following is the largest ocean?
A. Indian
B. Pacific
C. Atlantic
D. Arctic
Answer : B

22. The Sun experiences magnetic storms and this Interferes with the magnetic field oC the Earth and produces light which are called
A. Quasars
B. Polar Auroras
C. Meteorites
D. Pulsar
Answer : B

23. Which of the following conditions la the most relevant for the presence of life on Mars?
A. Atmospheric composition
B. Thermal conditions
C. Occurrence of ice caps and frozen water
D. Occurrence of ozone
Answer : C

24. On which date is the Earth in 'perihelion'?
A. January-3
B. June-21
C. July-4
D. December-22
Answer : A

25. A Light Year measures
A. A unit of velocity
B. A unit of distance
C. A unit of pressure
D. A unit of time
Answer : B

26. What is the position of the moon called when it la farthest from the earth?
A. Perigee
B. Perihelion
C. Aphelion
D. Apogee
Answer : D

27. When the Sun is vertically overhead along the Tropic of Capricorn at mid-day
A. days and nights are of equal lengths in the Northern Hemisphere
B. Nights are longer than days in the Southern Hemisphere
C. Days and nights are of equal lengths at the poles
D. Night is equal to 24 hours at the North Pole
Answer : D

28. Which planet is called 'red planet'?
A. Mars
B. Jupiter
C. Mercury
D. Venus
Answer : A

29. Which of the following is known as 'King of Planets'?
A. Earth
B. Jupiter
C. Mercury
D. Venus
Answer : B

30. Rapidly rotating stars emitting intense radio waves are called ___.
A. Pulsars
B. Quasuars
C. Neutron stars
D. All of the above
Answer : A

31. The length of its day and the tilt of its axis are almost identical to those of the Earth. This is true or
A. Uranus
B. Neptune
C. Saturn
D. Mars
Answer : D

32. If the Sun dies It will be transformed Into a
A. White Dwarf
B. Black Dwarf
C. Quasar
D. All of the above
Answer : B

33. Deimos and Phobos are the satellites of
A. Earth
B. Mars
C. Uranus
D. Neptune
Answer : B

34. Which of the following are the Outer Planets?
1. Jupiter
2. Saturn
3. Uranus
4. Neptune
A. 1 and 2
B. 1, 2and 3
C. 1, 2, 3 and 4
D. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
Answer : C

35. The study of universe on grand scale is called.
A. Cosmology
B. Astronomy
C. Astrology
D. Exbiology
Answer : A

36. Average density of the Earth is ( relative to water) __.
A. 5.5
B. 4.5
C. 9.5
D. 6.5
Answer : A

37. On the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere which of the hollowing latitudes will have the longest night?
A. 45°S
B. 60°S
C. 60°N
D. 45°N
Answer : B

38. Consider the following statements regarding asteroids:
1. Asteroids are rocky debris of varying sizes orbiting the Sun.
2. Most of the asteroids are small but some have diameter as large as 1000 km.
3. The orbit of asteroids lies between the orbits of
A. 1, 2 and 3 are correct
B. 2 and 3 are correct
C. 1 and 2 are correct
D. 1 and 3 are correct
Answer : C

39. Arrange the Inner Planets in decreasing order of their distances from the Sun.
1. Earth
2. Mercury
3. Venus
4. Mars
5. Neptune
A. 1, 4, 3, 2
B. 4, 2, 1, 3
C. 4, 1, 2, 3
D. 4, 1, 3, 2
Answer : D

40. Nearest star from the earth after Sun is
A. Proxima Centaury
B. Alfa Centaury
C. Dog Star
D. Constellation
Answer : A

41. The time taken by the sun to revolve around the centre or our galaxy is
A. 25 million yrs
B. 100 million yrs
C. 250 million yrs
D. 500 millionyrs
Answer : C

42. Which of the following statements are true?
1. Inner Planets are alternatively called Terrestrial Planets.
2. Outer Planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. All four Outer Planets are considered as Great Planets.
3. Pluto is also considered as
A. 1, 2 and 4
B. 1 and 4
C. 1, 3 and 4
D. 1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer : A

43. What are the Pleides?
A. Constellation
B. Asteroides
C. Meteores
D. Comets
Answer : A

44. The term 'syzygy' is referred to when the
A. Earth is at prihelion and Moon at perigee
B. Earth is at aphelion and Moon at apogee
C. Moon and Sun are at right angles with reference to the Earth
D. Moon, Sun and Earth lie along a straight line
Answer : C

45. How much time (approximately) does the light from the nearest star to the Sun take in reaching the earth?
A. 4.3 seconds
B. 4.3 years
C. 4.3 minutes
D. 4.3 hours
Answer : B

46. On which date is the Earth in 'aphelion'?
A. July-4
B. December-22
C. September-23
D. June-21
Answer : A

47. Largest satellite in Solar System is ____.
A. Moon
B. Ganymede
C. Europa
D. Cheron
Answer : B

48. The inclination of the earth's axis, i.e. the earth's axis is tilted at an angle from perpendicular to the orbital plane or makes an angle with the plane of the earth's orbit. What are these respective angles?
A. ${90}^0$
B. $23{\frac{1}{2}}^0$
C. $0^0$
D. $66{\frac{1}{2}}^0$
Answer : B

49. Presently the farthest planet from the Sun is _____.
A. Pluto
B. Neptune
C. Uranus
D. Venus
Answer : A

50. What is peninsula?
A. A narrow belt of land
B. A mountainous island
C. A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides
D. A range of hills
Answer : C