How many of the following statements are true?
1. Mean Solar Day is greater than Sidereal Day approximately by 4 minutes.
2. Earth's rotational velocity is decreasing.
3. Planets are arranged according to their increasing distance from the sun as follo

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How many of the following statements are true?
1. Mean Solar Day is greater than Sidereal Day approximately by 4 minutes.
2. Earth's rotational velocity is decreasing.
3. Planets are arranged according to their increasing distance from the sun as follo

A. 3 and 4

B. 1, 3 and 4

C. 1 and 2

D. 1, 2, 3 and 4

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What is the position of the moon called when it la farthest from the earth?

A. Perigee

B. Perihelion

C. Aphelion

D. Apogee

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What is the Southern Cross?

A. Position of the Sun during summer solstice

B. Position of the vertical Sun during winter solstice

C. A star showing the position of the South Pole

D. Point of intersection of Antarctic Circle and the Prime Meridian

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The dark patches, associated with the Sun storms present in Sun are called

A. Sunspots

B. Pulsars

C. White Dwarfstar

D. Supernova

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A family or system of millions and millions of stars are called ____.

A. Universe

B. Solar System

C. Galaxy

D. Asteroids

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The date on which the Sun is vertical over the 'Tropic of Cancer' is

A. June-21

B. December-22

C. March-21

D. September-23

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What is significant about the town of Greenwich?

A. The International Date Line passes through it

B. The 0° (Zero) meridian passes through it and therefore the world sets its time by it

C. It is at 180� longitude

D. It is a major horological research centre in Britain

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What is the average radius of the Earth?

A. 6071km

B. 6571km

C. 6371km

D. 6771 km

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Earth revolves round the Sun In an orbit once In every __.

A. 24 hours

B. 20 hours

C. 365 % days

D. 366 days

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Which of the following is known as the Cold Planet?

A. Mars

B. Uranus

C. Jupiter

D. Venus

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The word 'planet' means ____.

A. wanderer

B. pollution

C. celestial body

D. heavenly body

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Planet nearest to the earth is _____.

A. Venus

B. Mercury

C. Mars

D. Jupiter

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What happens when ships cross the International Date Line?

A. They have to pay a tax

B. Ships going west from the USA lose a day, ships going east from Japan and Australia gain a day

C. They have to report at the customs post

D. They have to check their clocks agains

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Who was the first person to describe the earth as a sphere?

A. Columbus

B. Varahmihir

C. Aryabhat

D. Copernicus

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When a year divisible by 4 and not divisible by 400 is called

A. Siderial Year

B. Solar Year

C. Cosmic Year

D. Leap Year

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The rate of rotation of the Earth on its axis is the highest on which of the following date?

A. It never changes

B. January-4

C. January-3

D. January-21

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When dees the Summer Solstice occur?

A. July 23

B. June 21

C. May 20

D. April 31

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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

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Polar circumference of the Earth is

A. 40000 km

B. 4000 km

C. 50000 km

D. 5000 km

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What does perigee mean?

A. The position of the moon farthest from the earth

B. The position of the earth nearest to the Sun

C. The position of the moon nearest to the earth

D. The position of the earth farthest from the Sun

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Sidereal means

A. Pertaining or referring to the stars

B. Pertaining or referring to the moon

C. Pertaining or referring to the Sun

D. Pertaining' or referring to the cosmic bodies

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Which of the following is the largest ocean?

A. Indian

B. Pacific

C. Atlantic

D. Arctic

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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. $66 {\frac{1}{2}}^{0}$

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Which planet rotates on its axis from north to south?

A. Uranus

B. Venus

C. Mars

D. Pluto

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The atmospheric� pressure on the surface of Venus is more than__ times the atmospheric pressure of the Earth.

A. 90

B. 80

C. 50

D. 100

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Lunar eclipse means

A. Direction or path of the Moon

B. The Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth

C. The Earth comes in between the sun and the Moon and the centres of all the three come on the same straight line

D. The average angle made by a line drawn from the Moon to the Earth

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Among the following which planet takes maximum time for one revolution around the Sun?

A. Earth

B. Jupiter

C. Mars

D. Venus

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What is the geographical term for land's end, that tip of land which projects into the sea?

A. A headland

B. A spit

C. A peninsula

D. A cape

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What is the shape of our galaxy 'Milky Way'?

A. spiral

B. elliptical

C. circular

D. spherical

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Which of the following is not an astronomical object?

A. Pulsar

B. Brittle Star

C. Black hole

D. Quasar

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Period of sunspot cycle is

A. 11 years

B. 15 years

C. 21 years

D. 33 years

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D. 1, 2, 3 and 4

How many of the following statements are true?
1. Mean Solar Day is greater than Sidereal Day approximately by 4 minutes.
2. Earth's rotational velocity is decreasing.
3. Planets are arranged according to their increasing distance from the sun as follo

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What is the position of the moon called when it la farthest from the earth?

What is the Southern Cross?

The dark patches, associated with the Sun storms present in Sun are called

A family or system of millions and millions of stars are called ____.

The date on which the Sun is vertical over the 'Tropic of Cancer' is

What is significant about the town of Greenwich?

What is the average radius of the Earth?

Earth revolves round the Sun In an orbit once In every __.

Which of the following is known as the Cold Planet?

The word 'planet' means ____.

Planet nearest to the earth is _____.

What happens when ships cross the International Date Line?

Who was the first person to describe the earth as a sphere?

When a year divisible by 4 and not divisible by 400 is called

The rate of rotation of the Earth on its axis is the highest on which of the following date?

When dees the Summer Solstice occur?

The term 'syzygy' is referred to when the

Polar circumference of the Earth is

What does perigee mean?

Sidereal means

Which of the following is the largest ocean?

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?

Which planet rotates on its axis from north to south?

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How many of the following statements are true?
1. Mean Solar Day is greater than Sidereal Day approximately by 4 minutes.
2. Earth's rotational velocity is decreasing.
3. Planets are arranged according to their increasing distance from the sun as follo