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(a) The brightest planet of the Solar System - Venus
(b) The slowest moving planet of Solar System – Mars
(c) The smallest planet of the Solar System - Mercury
(d) The largest planet of the Solar System - Jupiter
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (b)
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Question : 1
Which of the following stars is known as Fossil star?
a) Red Giant
b) White Dwarf
c) Dog Star
d) Protostar
Answer »Answer: (b)
White Dwarf is known as Fossil star. They are supported by electron degeneracy pressure. It amplifies the contrast with red giants. They are both very hot and very small. They are the opposite of black holes. They are the end-products of small, low-mass stars.
Question : 2
Consider the following statements:
- Our solar system is located in the orion arm of the Milky way galaxy, about two-third of the way out from the centre.
- The solar system formed from an interstellar cloud of dust and gas or nebulla about 4.6 billion years ago.
a) Both 1 and 2
b) Neither 1 nor 2
c) 2 only
d) 1 only
Answer »Answer: (a)
Our solar system is located in the Orion arm of the milky way galaxy, about two-thirds of the way out from the center. The sun is about 26,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is about 80,000 to 120,000 light-years across (and less than 7,000 light-years thick).
We are located on one of its spiral arms, out towards the edge. It takes the sun (and our solar system) roughly 200-250 million years to orbit once around the Milky Way. In this orbit, we (and the rest of the Solar System) are traveling at a velocity of about 155 miles/sec (250 km/sec).
Question : 3
Which one of the following statements is not correct?
a) All meridians are always parallel to one another
b) An indefinite number of meridians may be drawn on a globe
c) Meridians are spaced farthest apart at the equator and converge to common points at the poles
d) All meridians run in a ture North-South direction
Answer »Answer: (a)
A meridian is an imaginary line joining the north and south poles at right angles to the equator, designated by degrees of longitude from 0° at Greenwich to 180°.
The position of a point along the meridian is given by its latitude. Each meridian is perpendicular to all circles of latitude.
Question : 4
The Solar Eclipse achieves totality only in limited geographical regions because
a) The trajectories of the Earth around the Sun and Moon around the Earth are not perfect circles
b) Sun rays can reach most of the peripheral regions of the shadow of the Moon due to atmosphere refraction
c) The Earth is not a smooth flat surface, but has elevations and depressions
d) The size of the shadow of the Moon on the Earth is small as compared to cross-section of Earth
Answer »Answer: (d)
Question : 5
The average distance between the sun and earth is
a) 155 million km
b) 160 million km
c) 150 million km
d) 145 million km
Answer »Answer: (c)
Question : 6
In completing one revolution of the Sun, Earth takes approximately
a) 365.5 days
b) 365.75 days
c) 365.25 days
d) 365 days
Answer »Answer: (c)
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